Collaborative Health and Social Research Lecture Series
2010-2011
Margaret Everett, Ph.D., Sociology faculty, Portland State University with Meg Merrick, community Geography project coordinator for Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, and Ben Escalante, Community Health worker with the Healthy Active Schools Initiative for Multnomah County Health Department: "Working to Improve Food Access in North Portland: The Healthy Eating Active Living Coalition." Friday, June 3, 2011, SMU 296, 3:00-4:30 p.m. See more on events & Lectures.
Jose Padin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, Portland State University. " Can Interracial Youth Mentoring Help Adolescents and Reduce Societal Prejudice?: Rethinking Mentoring from the Vantage Point of the Classic "Contact Hypothesis". "Friday, May 6, 2011, ASRC 620/630.
Christina Nicolaidis, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Oregon Health and Science University, "The Interconnections Project: Partnering with African-American and Latina women to address depression and violence." Friday, April 1, 2011, SMSU 236.
Mary L Durham, Ph.D., Senior Investigator and Director of the Center for Health Research and Vice President/Research for Kaiser Permanente, "The Transformation of Health Care Research: The Top 10 Trends in Health Care Research and their Likely Impact on Reducing Health Disparities." Friday, November 12, 2010, SMU 294.
2009-2010
Melissa Thompson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Portland State University "Gender Differences in Drug Use and Crime: Patterns of Continuity and Change" Research funded by the National Science Foundation. Friday March 5, 2010 at 3pm in CH 263.
2008-2009
Peter Collier, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Sociology, Leveling the Playing Field: Promoting First-Generation College Student Success
Robin Hahnel, PhD, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC, What Kind of Response do We Need to the Economic and Environmental Crises
Lewis Mehl Madrona, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Argosy University, Department of Psychology, Honolulu, Hawaii, Coyote Wisdom: Bridging Cultures to Reduce Health Disparities: Co-sponsored by the Natural Way Indigenous Voices and PSU’s School of Social Work and MultiCultural Center
Fowzyiah Abu Khalid, Arab Women as a Social Force of Development and a Cultural Source of Unity, the Sociology Department of King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Center for Health and Social Inequality Research, Women's Studies and International Studies: Middle East Studies, Department of Psychology, and Women’s Studies.
For more information, please e-mail thomaso@pdx.edu.
