COMMENTARY | Many seniors can’t afford an unexpected health crisis This week, Oregon’s governor followed Washington and California in declaring a state of emergency, allowing the Oregon Health Authority to deploy additional staff and resources to respond ...
13 Mar 2020 - Marisa Espinoza
DIRECTOR'S DESK | Accustomed to getting the news out, they are becoming the media in a new way — by word of mouth Street Roots vendors are hitting the trails to deliver accurate information about COVID-19 to other unhoused people. Accustomed to getti ...
12 Mar 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR'S DESK | It's all-hands-on-deck when it comes to hygiene support We’re not helpless out here,” Raven Drake told me, standing in front of an eight-person tent that, she explained, would serve as a medical tent should any people in neighb ...
6 Mar 2020 - Kaia Sand
COMMENTARY | We won't go back. Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette is expanding health care despite threats to Roe v. Wade. On March 4, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for a huge case that could dismantle the protections of Roe v. Wade ...
6 Mar 2020 - Anne Udall
COMMENTARY | Today, it’s Trump’s ban on immigrants who need assistance, but medical injustice for people of color has roots 155 years deep On Jan. 27, the United States Supreme Court voted 5-4 to approve the Trump administration’s “public charge” law, als ...
7 Feb 2020 - Helen Hill
COMMENTARY | An expert reviews the latest craze in Silicon Valley It’s the latest fad in Silicon Valley. By reducing the brain’s feel-good chemical known as dopamine — cutting back on things like food, sex, alcohol, social media and technology — followers ...
3 Jan 2020 - Ciara McCabe
COMMENTARY | Testing, syringe exchanges, safer-sex supplies are available for free We are public health advocates, and we need your help to avoid an HIV outbreak. Kim started handing out clean needles to people on the streets of Berkeley 10 years before i ...
12 Jul 2019 - Kim Toevs and Jennifer Vines
COMMENTARY | It’s an unhealthy coping mechanism – an addiction that requires support In late 2015, I sat in the front seat of my car after dropping my children off at daycare. As I had done many times before, I opened a small pouch in my handbag and took ...
28 Jun 2019 - Gabrielle Reid
COMMENTARY | Undercounting these communities means less representation and ultimately fewer services Data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau may not seem political or imminently relevant to your life, but I can assure you it is both. The census helps dic ...
5 Apr 2019 - Emily McLain
COMMENTARY | Oregon researchers are working to unravel the connections between personal health and societal influences Two Portland-based healthcare research organizations are collaborating to understand how social determinants of health impact measures o ...
29 Mar 2019 - Erika Cottrell and Jean Baker