Faculty & Staff Resources
At OHSU, we believe diversity means creating a community of inclusion. That is why we support an environment where faculty, fellows, residents & staff from historically underrepresented populations can thrive and maximize their potential for creativity, innovation, quality patient care, educational excellence and outstanding service.
Here are some resources for multicultural awareness, understanding and education:
- OHSU Center for Diversity & Multicultural Affairs (CeDMA)-serves as a university resource supporting collaboration with the academic units, hospitals, and other campus and community resources in promoting an environment that values and nurtures an inclusive environment of diversity through various resources and programs for students, staff and faculty including Student Access and the Cultural Competency Lecture Series.
- Office of International Services- provides immigration advice and services to international students, employees and visitors.
- Affirmative Action & Equal Opportunity (AAEO)- a resource for staff, faculty, students, patients, and employment applicants in their effort to support diversity and prohibit discrimination in all facets of the University's activities including providing information on reasonable accommodation requests, diversity recruitment and diversity education.
- Central Services Recruitment Toolkit - a resource to access tools, templates, and ideas to help managers build an increasingly effective recruitment practice. One aim of this recruitment toolkit is to enhance the diversity of our workforce knowing that diversity maximizes our true potential for creativity, innovation, quality patient care, educational excellence, and outstanding service.
- Chaplaincy Services- provides spiritual support OHSU staff and patients. Chaplains are available to provide spiritual guidance, prayer, emotional support and comfort. A prayer/meditation room is available in Doernbecher Children's Hospital, room 10301.
- Index of Translated Patient Education Material - a list of patient education handouts available in multiple languages including: English, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Serbo-Croatian.
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The Cultural Competency Resource Guide is a list of websites for OHSU members interested in increasing their cultural competency in health care. The information is useful to gain more knowledge in culturally competent care.
- Spanish Language Classes - information on noncredit Spanish language classes open to everyone at OHSU. Class level's include: Beginning Medical Spanish, Beginning I - IV, and Intermediate I and II.
- Career Development Center- provides an English language development program, including tutoring, group conversation classes and self-paced learning options, personalized support and a wide array of resources for career advancement. Additional resources for all staff include individual career counseling, networking information, soft skill training classes, customer service, computer application classes, tutorials, a career library and computer lab accessible.
- OHSU Workplace Breastfeeding Protocol - OHSU has established a listing of spaces that are available for breastfeeding or expressing breast milk. These locations are private, have accessible electrical outlets for an electric breast pump and have a sink close by for hand washing and rinsing of breast pump parts.
- Global Health Alliance - working to reduce health disparities through the promotion of global health awareness, education, advocacy and action at OHSU and throughout the larger community. By facilitating collaborations between students, faculty, and community partners, we aim to provide opportunities to learn about global health care in diverse cultures and settings; build a dynamic community dedicated to inquiry, cooperation, and creative problem-solving; increase access to the kinds of social, intellectual, and other resources that will enable students to work towards reducing global health disparities both locally and abroad.
- Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) - a partnership with OHSU and Oregon communities to improve education, training and distribution of healthcare professionals in Oregon. The AHEC program gives students a taste of rural practice with the hope they eventually settle there. For health care professionals who enter rural practice, the program helps them keep their skills up-to-date through continuing education opportunities.
- The Coalition for Health and Affirmation of Sexual Minorities (CHASM) - OHSU's campus-wide organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) students, faculty, and employees and their allies, friends, and family.
