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Alumni
Alumni
College of Health
Welcome home
You got your start here, and today you are part of a community nearly 30,000 strong who are changemakers around the globe. You, your insights and your experience matter. Regardless of when you graduated, the college, and this world, are better because of what you bring to it.
You enable our work by mentoring and hiring students, and supporting college initiatives. We strive to return the favor with educational, career and volunteer opportunities. We’re partners with purpose, and we’re stronger together, engaged in work that matters to people, families and communities in Oregon and beyond.
Our Health& ...
The Our Health& series showcases the importance of health in a person’s daily life throughout the lifespan.
Each episode is guided by and designed to answer our community members’ questions about health topics via a facilitated a town hall-style forum with series panelists.
These events are hosted in partnership by the OSU Alumni Association, OSU Foundation, the OSU College of Health and the OSU Center for Health Innovation.
Events
Alumni stories
HDFS alumna is helping the nation’s most vulnerable children
Kylee Probert, HDFS PhD ’22, doesn’t like America’s childcare system, so she’s doing something about it.
Health management, MPH alum is driven by mission
Kelley Kaiser, ’93, MPH ’99, serves as senior vice president – chief administrative officer for Samaritan Health Services, a five-hospital, 80-clinic integrated delivery system that operates two insurance companies in the Mid-Willamette Valley.
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An impactful career bringing health care into communities
From Oregon State to India to Tennessee, Amber Coyne, MPH ’15, is making a profound impact in infectious disease community outreach, prevention and treatment. Currently the Syndemic Coordination Director at the Tennessee Department of Health, she oversees the development and implementation of End the Syndemic Tennessee (ETS), which is a community-informed strategic plan to address the prevention of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, substance use disorder and viral hepatitis in Tennessee.
Watch a conversation with Amber about how her roots in public health and special interests in LGBTQ+ health equity, harm reduction and language justice propel her to find innovative ways to address public health risks and keep our most vulnerable populations safe.
