News and Events
- NEWS
Now Hiring: Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Health
The Center for Community and Global Health at Lewis & Clark College invites applications for a full-time, visiting position to begin August 15, 2022. Duties include teaching five semester-long undergraduate courses in public health/epidemiology each academic year (in-person) and contributing to the Center for Community and Global Health’s co-curricular programming.
Inside-Out Instructor Training: Faculty Grant Applications
We are offering three L&C faculty Inside-Out Instructor Training grants, the first of which will be awarded for training during Summer 2022.
Guidance for Student Healthcare, Winter Break, 2021-22
This updated guidance is effective from Thursday, December 16, 2021 through Friday, January 14, 2022, and provides guidance if you:
- Have COVID symptoms;
- Have been diagnosed with COVID;
- Are concerned about a possible COVID exposure;
- Need to talk with a crisis counselor or advocate; or
- Have other healthcare needs.
While the focus of this guidance is students living on-campus over the break, this guidance also provides resources for other students in Portland.
Now Hiring: Center for Community and Global Health Student Staff
The Center for Community and Global Health Student Staff position will promote and support the work, programs, events, and opportunities at the Center to the Lewis & Clark community.
The Center offers coursework, internship experiences, community collaborations, prehealth and premed advising to Lewis & Clark students with an interest in health and healing.
We have a preference for hiring a Health Studies Minor and/or a student with an interest in a career in the health professions.
If you are interested, we would love to hear from you! Please reach out to Alexis Rehrmann, Community Engagement Coordinator with questions, concerns, or clarifications. Ready to apply? Follow the links below:Students who do not yet have a job on campus: External Application - Center for Community and Global Health - Student Staff Spring 2022Students who have been hired before: Internal Application - Center for Community and Global Health - Student Staff Spring 2022
Narrative Medicine: The Lost Art Of Active Listening
Narrative medicine is the practice of listening, absorbing, metabolizing and being moved to action by stories of wellness and disease. When put into practice, this involves treating a patient as a whole person, rather than just as their illness.Read the full story by Aidan D’Anna on the LC Pioneer Log.
John Hancock’s Focuses on Campus Health & Wellness
John Hancock, Associate Dean of Students for Health & Wellness has two big public health ideas to share in this weekly Student Life Column: a focus on equity and a focus on COVID.
Read on!
Joy, Community, and Resilience in Vietnamese Portland
This exhibit explores joy and community as forms of resilience for Vietnamese Portlanders by showcasing photographs, writings, and quotes from a diverse range of Vietnamese voices.Curated by L&C students Ben Warner ’22 and Mei Bailey ’22, it is on display on the top floor of Watzek Library through the end of the fall semester and is available to view online.
Annual Ray Warren Symposium Explores Joy and Justice
The annual Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies engages attendees in conversations about race, ethnicity, and identity. This year’s event focuses on the theme of Joy & Justice. The symposium runs from November 10 to November 12.
PROGRAMS: New Health Studies Initiative
With the help of the comprehensive campaign, Lewis & Clark will build upon its newly launched Health Studies Program and Center for Community and Global Health.
Vice President of Student Life Addresses LC’s Ongoing COVID Response
The LC community will receive an LC Bulletin from the College discussing where we are in terms of COVID cases. There have been a number of COVID notifications recently, and many of you have expressed concern, wondering what the uptick in cases really means.
Click through to read the latest regarding positive COVID cases.
- EVENTS
Info Session: FREE Summer Health Professions Education Program at UW
SHPEP: Shaping Careers. Changing Lives.
The FREE 6-week Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) is a transformative summer experience for students interested in the health professions. The program offers opportunities to explore dentistry, medicine, and other health careers, including nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, and public health.
Attend this zoom information session to find out more!Housed at the University of Washington School of Medicine, SHPEP is open to freshman and sophomores interested in the health professions and to those students who have been historically underrepresented in healthcare.
The program will take place at the University of Washington from June 20 through July 29, 2022 and is scheduled to be in person. Room and board is free. Travel and attendance stipends are offered.
Application are open now and close February 5, 2022.
For more information and how to apply:
Art Therapy Open Studio
Art Therapy Open Studio
Participants may begin a new piece using a gentle prompt offered at the beginning of each session or work on their own new or ongoing pieces. It is an opportunity to connect in a time where connection is needed most. Expect a short introduction, choose to work in silence or engage in conversation with others who choose to, and participate in a short recap on the making process at the end of the session.
RSVP
Defining Abolition - 2022 MLK Virtual Racial Justice Teach-in
An MLK Virtual Racial Justice Teach-in presented by the Racial Justice Campus Collaborative - Campus Compact, in collaboration with the Center for Social Change and Community Involvement.
Info Session: FREE Summer Health Professions Education Program at UW
SHPEP: Shaping Careers. Changing Lives.
The FREE 6-week Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) is a transformative summer experience for students interested in the health professions. The program offers opportunities to explore dentistry, medicine, and other health careers, including nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, and public health.
Attend this zoom information session to find out more!Housed at the University of Washington School of Medicine, SHPEP is open to freshman and sophomores interested in the health professions and to those students who have been historically underrepresented in healthcare.
The program will take place at the University of Washington from June 20 through July 29, 2022 and is scheduled to be in person. Room and board is free. Travel and attendance stipends are offered.
Application are open now and close February 5, 2022.
For more information and how to apply:
Multnomah County Point-in-Time Street Count
The Lewis & Clark College Center for Social Change and Community Involvement shares a volunteer opportunity to assist with the Multnomah County point-in-time count of people experiencing homelessness who are unsheltered (living on the street, in cars, and other places not meant for human habitation).
Posting on behalf of A Home for Everyone.
“Every other year, our community conducts a point-in-time count of people experiencing homelessness who are unsheltered (living on the street, in cars, and other places not meant for human habitation). This year’s Street Count is scheduled on January 26- February 1, 2022, with a focus on those who were unsheltered on the night of Wednesday, January 26. We count on hundreds of volunteers like you to help us get as complete and accurate of a count as possible.
Given the current public health crisis, we are glad to provide personal protective equipment to ensure the data collection can happen as safely as possible. PSU will be providing an online training to you and your staff, as well as all materials needed to collect the paper survey data.
Please confirm your willingness to volunteer in the upcoming count and please include your name, pronouns, and contact information.
We will provide you with all the forms, personal protective equipment, and training you need to help conduct the count.”
Please register online using the linked sign up form. Register on GivePulse to record your service hours.
Art Therapy Open Studio
Art Therapy Open Studio
Participants may begin a new piece using a gentle prompt offered at the beginning of each session or work on their own new or ongoing pieces. It is an opportunity to connect in a time where connection is needed most. Expect a short introduction, choose to work in silence or engage in conversation with others who choose to, and participate in a short recap on the making process at the end of the session.
RSVP
ReConnect Gap-Year Fellowship: Virtual Panel Presentation
ReConnect Gap-Year Fellowship a program provided by the Area Health Education Center of Southwest Oregon.
Have you considered a gap-year to gain experience in the medical field while you apply to medical or physician assistant school? Join our virtual panel with former ReConnect Fellows and learn about this unique gap-year program in rural healthcare. Hear from former Fellows about how this experience helped them navigate their path to medical or physician assistant school.
