Health Discoveries Program
Let's Get Healthy!
Interactive Education and Research Exhibit
Learn important information about your body
while contributing to science!
Let's Get Healthy! is a popular interactive education and research exhibit now available for use at area health fairs. Attendees are invited to enroll as research participants where they learn about the research process and the quality of their own diet and body composition. Participants can contribute their anonymous health information to a population database that researchers can use to the scientific relationships among diet, body composition, genetics, and chronic disease. Communities are invited to use the data to develop programs and write grants that support healthy living in the community. Schools can use the data to conduct scientific inquiry lessons with their students, allowing students to examine information like their own energy drink consumption using real, but completely anonymous, data.
Let's Get Healthy! (originally titled Nutrition World) was created by OCTRI Community & Practice Research (CPR) program team member Jackie Shannon and others. The exhibit debuted at OMSI in summer 2007 and was hugely popular. Over 3,000 individuals lined up to participate over the week and a half of the exhibit.
Volunteer
We welcome volunteers of all professional backgrounds to help with the exhibit. If you would would like to volunteer at one of our fairs or be on our mailing list, please complete a simple registration form.
Register to volunteer!
Upcoming Fairs
All fairs are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated.
- Caregivers Fair
Monday and Tuesday, January 30-31, 2012 in Bend, OR
This event is open to caregivers at St. Charles Medical Center, but is otherwise closed to the public. This 36-hour marathon event will be taking place from 7:00 AM on the 30th to 7:00 PM on the 31st, in order to accommodate workers of various schedules. Volunteers are needed for shifts throughout this time! Register to volunteer!
- Bend School District Fair
Monday, April 2-6, 2012 in Bend, OR
Bend Area Middle Schools (locations TBA)
This event is closed to the public and presented in partnership with the Bend School District and St. Charles Medical Center. Volunteers are needed for shifts throughout this time! Register to volunteer!
8:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
- Bend Community Fair
Saturday, April 7, 2012 in Bend, OR
Pilot Butte Middle School (location TBA)
This event is OPEN to the public and presented in partnership with the Bend School District and St Charles Medical Center. Volunteers are needed for shifts throughout this time! Register to volunteer!
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Saturday, August, 2012 in Portland, OR (date TBA)
Asian Community Wellness Fair
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Contact
Lisa Marriott, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Health Discoveries Program and Let's Get Healthy! Exhibit
Oregon Health & Science University
(503) 494-8775
