In our commitment to advancing the health and well-being of communities through service, we are proud to share a few examples of our didactics to provide a sense of the depth and breadth of our program.  Didactics will be held on a recurring basis, and time will be blocked for residents at each PGY-level. Teachers will include core program faculty, along with other community and regional experts in public health and preventive medicine.   

Environmental Health

• Site visits (e.g., Willamette Superfund site, Hanford, Bull Run, local water treatment plant)
• Toxicology (inter-professional case review with the toxicology fellows, on-site time with the Poison Control Center)
• Water Quality/Boil Water Tabletop Exercise
• Cooking with Gas: Health Impacts of Gas Stoves Pollution and Policy Needs

Clinical Preventive Services

• Overview of the USPSTF/ Journal Club
• Annual Medicare Wellness Visit
• Pediatric Vaccines
• Pediatric Well Visit
• Addiction Care
• Delivery approaches to preventive services
• Addiction Care 101
• PrEP to Prevent HIV

Behavioral Aspects of Health

• Wellness
• SBIRT Training and Motivational Interviewing
• Principles of Harm Reduction 
• The Waterfall of Addiction: Preventing Substance Use and Overdoses
• Mindfulness

Health Services Management and Administration

• Leadership in Preventive Medicine and Public Health
• Advocacy
• Population Health in a Health System
• Improvement Science Co-Faculty Preparation Session
• Capitol Lobby Day

Risk/Hazard Control and Communication and Emergency Preparedness

• Public Health Crisis Survival Guide
• County-level emergency preparedness exercises (weather-related table-tops, Cascadia prep)

Occupational Health

• Basic institutional safety requirements for healthcare workers
• Evaluation and management of blood-borne pathogen exposures
• Evaluation and management of noninfectious exposures in the healthcare setting
• Employee mental health challenges, trauma informed care and suicide prevention
• The patient EMR vs the employee health record, and medicolegal aspects of occupational health
• Employee travel medicine
• Occupational health research

Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health

• Health Share/CCO coordination of this work- 1115 expansion (housing, Medicaid, food assistance, etc)
• Structural Competency Modules (online modules, Sakai)
• Health Equity Perspectives 
• Robert Graham Center Population Health GIS Mapping Exercise (Online modules)
• Healthcare & Homes for All: The Impact of Houselessness on Health
• Work with MultCo Community Partnerships and Capacity Building team

Principles of Research/Evidence Review, Biostatistics

• Biostatistics Series
• Principles of Research/Evidence Review
• Guidline Review Process (JNC8, ACCP, AACE, Gold)

Public Health Practice

• Outbreak investigation exercises
• Interserction of public health and education (Online modules on Sakai)
• Vaccines (Guideline Development and Population Health Approaches)
• Public Health Practice: Basics of Gender Affirming Care
• Ethics in Public Health Practice
• Climate Checkup: Identifying Those Most Vulnerable to Climate Change, Gender Affirming Health Care 
• Guest lecture series of public health professionals (e.g., State Epidemiologist, County Health Officers, etc.)

Lifestyle Medicine

• Nutrition
• Weight Management
• Exercise as medicine
• Sleep