Good News

Mandana Masoumirad, a PhD student in health policy, received the Outstanding Student Poster Award at the Oregon Public Health Association’s conference. Her poster was titled “Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion: Impact on use of sexual and reproductive health services for women living in rural and urban Oregon.”

Learn more about Mandana at Far from home, but never far from her thoughts.

Kathy Gunter, professor in Extension Family and Community Health and kinesiology, has been selected as Provost Fellow for the 2022-23 academic year. Kathy will collaborate with Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Rick Settersten and shared governance partners on initiatives aimed at strengthening promotion and tenure processes throughout the university. Congratulations, Kathy!

With Milam Hall getting a new roof, our college was able to work with OSU's capital planning to include a 106 kilowatt solar system to provide approximately 25% of Milam’s electrical use. Yay teamwork!

An OSU team received a $5.5 million federal grant to transform Oregon's forest industry. As a part of this four-year project, CPHHS Associate Professor Jay Kim, as a Co-PI, will evaluate the efficacy of wearable exoskeletons on improving occupational safety and health for next-generation forestry operation, as well as the sustainability and longevity of forestry workers in Oregon and beyond.

Maret co-published an article that provides guidance and background to physicians on how to treat patients with rare genetic disorders causing extremely low cholesterol and triglycerides in their blood. The disorder causes an inability to absorb vitamin E and properly transport it to tissues in the body.

This article has personal significance to Maret, as she once helped a patient whose brother had died of vitamin E deficiency. This patient was treated with grams of vitamin E per day, and by helping her figure out what to eat to avoid various nutritional deficiencies she was healthy enough to have two children and now is a grandmother. Around 40 years later, this patient still keeps in touch with Maret.

Associate Professor David Rothwell's Op-Ed was published by the Seattle Times. His article, "The full picture of poverty in America", discusses the implication of poverty rates published by the Census Bureau.

Congrats to Sarah Rothenberg, D.Env. on receiving an Oregon Sea Grant Program Development Project titled: Associations Between PFAS and Urogenital Cancer in Non-Stranded California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus).

Dave Dallas was selected as a fellow with the inaugural cohort of Biohealth Valley Fellows, funded by a grant by the Wayne & Gladys Valley Foundation.

Solaiman Doza received a $10,000 award from the Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety for his work titled "Evaluating work-associated injuries among self-employed and wage-salaried agriculture, forestry, and fishing workers to identify injury burden and prevention opportunities".

Results underscore the importance of providing robust safety protections for outdoor workers.

Sean Newsom was selected as a fellow with the inaugural cohort of Biohealth Valley Fellows, funded by a grant by the Wayne & Gladys Valley Foundation.

OSU Sherman County Extension and Sherman County Senior Center will be partnering this fall, for the first time, to bring nutrition and wellness programs to the center in Moro. This will start with the "Seniors Eating Well" series to be held Mondays during lunch during October and November.