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Equity, Inclusion, Diversity
Equity, Inclusion, Diversity
College of Health
We are collaborative, confident and kind. We care for one another and show our support for what’s right.
In the College of Health, we fight for health equity and health as a human right.
We gather diverse experts and partners to pursue common goals, and we prepare the next generation of globally aware leaders and problem-solvers.
We do this because it’s the right thing to do – and because ensuring equitable access to health and tackling complex challenges takes each and every one of us.
Moving Forward Together
Realizing our commitment to leading change and ending systemic racism within Oregon State University requires that we collaboratively work as faculty, staff and students to consider and take actions consistent with OSU’s mission and the values of the university community.
The Moving Forward Together website outlines actions underway within the university to advance this commitment.
Get to know alumni advancing EID
Learn about these faculty EID champions
Watch these videos
- Alum Jeremiah Allen and the LGBTQ+ community
- Racism is a public health crisis: Now that we see, what can we do?
- You’re welcome here
- Disproportionate access to health during COVID-19
- Isolate the problem: Health disparities and Latinx communities
- Rural housing crisis
- IMPACT motor fitness program for children with disabilities
Learn about college EID research
- Heart disease and marginalized groups
- Medical mistrust, misinformation and vaccines
- A healthier lifestyle for all
- Grassroots vaccine uptake and Latinos
- Addressing food insecurity
- Domestic violence in India
- LGBTQ service members
- Gender-affirming health care in Oregon
- Mental health and well-being in rural Oregon
- Mental health and the LGBTQ+ community
- Ethnic, racial disparities and smoking
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College of Health receives grant to implement equity reforms
Oregon State University is one of seven institutions nationwide to receive a new grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to create and implement reforms that make public health academic programs more equitable.
See how the college will implement the grant.
Push your thinking and action
As you assess your individual capacity to stand up for a different world, here are some external resources to push your thinking and action:
- Watch this six-minute video on invest/divest strategies from Law for Black Lives.
- Plug into community organizing and learn why we need to work with community organizers to advance equity.
- Watch the documentary 13th (2016), where scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.
- Check out “Local color,” a one-hour film from OPB on Oregon’s history of racism.
- "Building Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory Transformation," by Ejeris Dixon
- Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue, American Public Health policy statement
- Resources to Challenge Policing and Incarceration as Part of a COVID-19 Response, by Human Impact Partners with End Police Violence Collective and Community Justice Exchange
- “Institutionalized racism: A syllabus,” by Catherine Halley
- “Racial capitalism: A fundamental cause of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic inequities in the United States,” by Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, PhD
- Books for children. Black Lives Matter Instructional Library. Click on each book to hear it read aloud.
- Topics include:
- Activism and Advocacy
- Self-Love and Empowerment
- Black History
- Topics include:
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Expand your understanding and find community
Connect more deeply with members of the OSU community through cultural celebrations, the cultural resource centers, the Cultural Ambassador Conversant Program and more.
With the broad programming at OSU, everyone can discover other cultures and share something from their own.
View Diversity Resources across Oregon State University
Contact
Kate MacTavish, PhD
Director of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity
College of Health
Email 541-737-9130