OSU Student Public Health Association

07/08/2019

Happy summer everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful season and making the most out of it wherever you are!
Make sure to check out the story that Synergies did on the seventh annual Get Outdoors Day event that took place at Peavy Arboretum and that was hosted by The OSU Research Forests, OSU Extension Service, and Benton County Health Department. If you want to know about how this nation-wide event was executed in Corvallis; how the OSU SPHA supported it with fun, outdoor health promotion activities; and are interested in participating next year, you should definitely check it out! Link down below!

Public health students and faculty engaged families in health promotion activities as part of Corvallis’ seventh annual Get Outdoors (GO) Day.

05/15/2019

Are you interested in promoting healthy, active, fun in the outdoors? Join us tonight in Waldo 400 from 4:30-5:30 pm for our final planning session for Get Outdoors Day. Come join us and volunteer for the Get Outdoors Day Event at Peavy Arboretum on Saturday, June, 8th!!

05/12/2019

Are you interested in promoting healthy, active, fun in the outdoors?🌲🌻🏞 Come join us and volunteer for the Get Outdoors Day Event at Peavy Arboretum!

***If you would like to volunteer with the OSU Student Public Health Association, please contact Dr. Aimee Synder email: [email protected] ***

The OSU Research Forests, OSU Extension Service, and Benton County Health Department are hosting the seventh annual Get Outdoors Day event at Peavy Arboretum. This free public event will take place on Saturday June 8, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m as part of the National Get Outdoors Day, an annual event encouraging healthy, active outdoor fun. Participating partners will offer a variety of activities designed to engage visitors and connect youth with the outdoors. For more information: https://cf.forestry.oregonstate.edu/get-outdoors-day

The OSU Student Public Health Association plans to host a table with vegetable printing and an obstacle course. We’re looking for students to sign up for 2 hour shifts for some of the following roles from 9:00am-11:00am (set up and start up), 11:00am-1:00pm, 1:00pm-3:00pm. (close up and clean up) and if you would like to, you can also sign up for back-to-back shifts. The roles are:

Vegetable printing (examples attached)

Obstacle Course

Evaluation Team

Language Translation

We are are partnering with Dr. Veronica Irvin’s evaluation class and OSU Extension for this event and we will be having a meeting with Dr. Irvin on Wednesday, May 15 at 4:30p.m. in Waldo 400 to talk more about what we need to do for the event.

***Parking space at the event will NOT be available, but there are going to be many shuttles available in Corvallis that will be able to take you to and from Peavy Arboretum!***

Hope to see you all there!

04/29/2019

Do you want to plan and participate in more events? Become an officer next year! There are still plenty of spots available!

All 5 positions (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Social Media Coordinator) will be vacant. The position descriptions/duties and link to apply can be found on the OSU Student Public Health Association's canvas page.

Please consider that a position on our executive board requires a time commitment. All officers are expected to attend meetings (Wednesdays, 4:30-5:30 pm) and spend 1-2 additional hours/week communicating with fellow officers and performing required duties. The list of advantages are well worth this time commitment as they include:

-Leadership development and experience

-Special opportunities like meeting with the Dean or other administrators

-Access to faculty and campus supports like Student Leadership and Involvement or the Career Development Center

-Access and opportunities to network with professionals in the field, like OPHA members across Oregon, Oregon legislature and legislative directors, and county health department professionals


NOMINATIONS WILL CLOSE AT 4 PM ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 1ST.

THE ELECTION WILL BE HELD AT 4:30 PM ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 1ST IN WALDO 400.

04/03/2019

Dr. Veronica Irvin will be speaking to the OSU Student Public Health Association (formerly the Public Health Club) at our Week 3 meeting (Wed, April 17 from 4:30 – 5:30pm in Waldo 400) about the upcoming Get Outdoors Day event on Saturday, June 8, opportunities to get involved in the event, and how community organizing/building events like these are useful health promotion activities.

Join us to talk about how we can make the biggest impact on our community and have fun and network while we’re doing it!

03/16/2019

National Public Health Week is in week one of Spring Term and we're hosting an event about s*x, s*xual health, and intimacy with guest speaker Dr. Dan Dowhower.

When: Wed, April 3, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Where: Waldo 400

RSVP Here: https://goo.gl/forms/XxjdZ2mT70ZmpXTG2

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03/05/2019

Be a Trivia Team Leader for the Benton County National Public Health Week Celebration: Tues, April 2nd, 6-8pm

The OSU Student Public Health Association (formerly the Public Health Club) has a special opportunity to get involved with the Benton County Health Department's annual National Public Health Week event: on Tuesday, April 2nd from 6-8pm in the Corvallis Public Library.

Our county health department staff are planning a fun event and want to engage students in leadership roles for the event. We need outgoing CPHHS students, all levels welcome, to lead public health trivia teams: Basically you'd lead a team of community members in the trivia game, help facilitate discussion of the trivia question, write your team's answer on the slates, and cheer for your teams and others. The trivia game will focus on local harm reduction information. You don't have to know the answers to be a leader. In fact, it's better if you don't know the answers. :)

If you commit to being a trivia team leader, you will be provided with a valuable networking and professional development opportunity. You will meet many health department staff and a variety of public health professionals and community members from across Benton County.

Feel too shy? Volunteer with a friend. You two can lead a team together. Or we can partner you up with a new friend. Regardless, you'll be there with a group of us and we'll be there to help you out.

Please email Aimee Snyder ([email protected]) if you're interested in leading a trivia team. Email your interest by Wednesday of Week 10. We will coordinate a "training" meeting.

02/26/2019

02/26/2019

Come join us in the Hallie Ford Center, room 115, on Tuesday, February, 26th at 4:00pm to learn about all the wonderful clubs that the College of Public Health and Human Sciences has to offer! Hope to see you there!

02/25/2019

On January, 31st, five Public Health Club undergraduate students had an amazing opportunity to visit the Oregon State Capitol for the Oregon Public Health Association’s (OPHA) Advocacy Day. The Public Health Club members were able to advocate for a health-focused legislation in Salem.

Read this story to see what these future policy change makers were able to experience during this visit:

Five public health undergraduate students trekked to the Oregon State Capitol for the OPHA Advocacy Day.

02/25/2019