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- Email: orprn@ohsu.edu
- Telephone: 503-494-0361
- Fax: 503-494-1513
Physical address
ORPRN's headquarters are located on Portland's South Waterfront:
3030 S Moody Avenue, Suite 160
Portland, OR 97201
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Mailing address
Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network
3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road
Mail Code: L222
Portland, OR 97239-3098
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Partner with us
Bring your project to ORPRN
ORPRN researchers and staff regularly work with investigators from across OHSU, Oregon and the country. If you are a researcher with a project idea that fits with our mission and expertise, we want to partner with you.
ORPRN's mission is to improve health for all Oregonians through community engaged Research, Education and Health Systems Transformation.
- We have ongoing conversations with primary care clinicians, payers, health systems and community members throughout Oregon, with a special emphasis on rural and frontier communities. We strive to understand the realities of day-to-day clinical practice.
- We are researchers with experience in multiple types of methodologies, from pragmatic clinical trials to dissemination and implementation to community engaged participatory research. We have skilled qualitative and quantitative analysts who support project design, implementation and analyses and project managers who move projects successfully from inception through recruitment and enrollment to completion.
- We have mastered Practice Facilitation (also known as practice coaching) through two decades of experience. We meet primary care practice staff where they are and help them assess, create, implement and improve everything from simple quality improvement projects to complex research trials. Our facilitators establish ongoing relationships with practices, clinicians and staff, and several live throughout Oregon, bring their lived experiences to the position.
- We create and provide education to practicing clinicians through webinars, technical assistance programs and our innovative and successful Project ECHO telementoring programs. The Oregon ECHO Network within ORPRN produces dozens of high-quality programs for primary care, behavioral health, skilled nursing facilities, peers and more that utilize multi-disciplinary teams of experts to mentor and assist community providers.
Whether you are starting out with your first project or are an experienced investigator, if you are interested in practice-based research, working with community practices and their partners or want to incorporate facilitation into your work, consider partnering with ORPRN.
ORPRN is ready to support your research with everything from project planning and recruitment to data analysis and dissemination.
To begin the process, click the button below and fill out the form to tell us about your project and what support you are looking for:
ORPRN's mission
Improve health for all Oregonians through community engaged Research, Education and Health Systems Transformation.
A message from ORPRN's Director, Melinda Davis, Ph.D.
This year has been full of unpredictability. Across our communities, the pressures are real: access to basic services is increasingly uncertain, rising costs of groceries and essentials are stretching household budgets, and extreme weather events amplify this stress. In academic health centers, research funding remains under threat.
Against this backdrop, ORPRN has adapted and recommitted to serving primary care and rural populations. The strategic planning we initiated in 2023 continues to anchor our network’s priorities, and we remain grounded in our values, mission, and community agreements. These elements emphasize key strengths - including our statewide reach, with 30% of our staff embedded in rural communities, and our reputation for being a reliable, friendly, and highly skilled workforce.
This month we are delighted to share the 2026 ORPRN Impact Report. The report showcases the impact of key projects that bring research to rural areas, advance ECHO programming, and support collaboration across complex healthcare systems. We highlight multiple times ORPRN staff have shared their expertise nationally related to health information technology, community engagement in clinical trials, practice-based research networks (PBRNs), and education for rural health care providers.
In all our work, we continue to prioritize projects that matter most to our primary care clinics, communities and health system partners. This includes active lines of work to improve access and quality of care for behavioral health and substance use disorders, chronic pain, and unmet social needs; prepare for and respond to extreme weather events; and develop team-based primary care models that support whole person care.
When ORPRN was founded in 2002, our network goals focused on advancing work that was woven into the fabric of the clinic and community, was durable enough to withstand the test of time, and would help understand the values and dynamics of clinics in rural communities. Our projects today exemplify these foundational goals and continue to support crucial work to advance, sustain, and engage primary care during turbulent times.
Please take a moment to review the exciting work underway. We remain grateful for the opportunity to partner with many of you in service to our mission of improved health for all Oregonians.
— Melinda Davis, Ph.D., ORPRN Director