OHSU

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, thereby allowing students to examine information like their own energy drink consumption use 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.

  • Friday, March 12, 2010  in St. Helens, Oregon
    3:00 - 7:00 p.m. at St. Helens Middle School
  • Wednesday, April 7, 2010 in Portland, Oregon
    10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at OHSU in the lobby of the Center for Health & Healing (CHH)
  • Saturday, April 24, 2010 in Madras, Oregon
    10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at Madras High School
  • Saturday, September 25, 2010 in Hermiston, Oregon
    Family Health & Fitness Day: 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. at Hermiston High School
  • Saturday, October 16, 2010 in Portland, Oregon
    African American Health Coalition Wellness Fair: 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. at Blazer Boys & Girls Club

Contact

Lisa Marriott, PhD
marriott@ohsu.edu

Program Coordinator, Health Discoveries Program and Let's Get Healthy! Exhibit
Oregon Health & Science University
(503) 494-8775