Anne King, ORPRN's associate director of healthcare initiatives, accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at last month's 78th Annual Oregon Public Health Association (OPHA) conference.

Anne King's focus on upstream public health interventions; her commitment to fostering collaborations between clinic, community, payer, and health system partners in order to improve health outcomes for Oregonians; and her wise mentoring of the next generation of public health professionals were all cited by OPHA in choosing King for the award.

King is one of the longest-serving members of the ORPRN team, joining the network in 2003, just a year after ORPRN was established. She took a hiatus from ORPRN to work in administration at OHSU's Clinical and Translational Research Institute and at the Center for Evidence-based Policy before returning to ORPRN in 2017. 

“Anne is a regional and national leader in how to effectively build and sustain partnerships between public health, primary care, payers and community organizations to advance health equity. Much of the work Anne has done in the past five years is focused on addressing unmet social needs," said Melinda Davis, Ph.D., associate professor of family medicine and interim director of ORPRN.

"What’s special about Anne is her ability to advance this work at multiple levels, including efforts to improve direct patient care, refine clinical workflows and enable care transitions, and advance health policies that make the work on the ground feasible and sustainable," Davis said.

For more about King and the award, see this article on OHSU Now.