Equity, Inclusion, Diversity

We are collaborative, confident and kind. We care for one another and show our support for what’s right.

In the College of Public Health and Human Sciences, 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

Learn about college EID research

CPHHS 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
Looking back in order to look forward: Timeline of Oregon and U.S. racial, immigration, and education history
“Racial capitalism: A fundamental cause of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic inequities in the United States,” by Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, Ph.D.
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

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, Ph.D.
Director of Equity, Inclusion and Diversity
College of Public Health and Human Sciences

Email
541-737-9130

Equity, Inclusion, Diversity