Research Centers and Institutes

Center for Public Health Studies

450 Urban Center

http://www.pdx.edu/sch/center-for-public-health-studies 

The Center for Public Health Studies (CPHS) seeks to enhance the public’s health by conducting interdisciplinary research exploring the interaction of health, society, and social policy. Our goals include:

• assessing the structural causes and consequences of health and disease;
• examining health behaviors in their social context;
• studying the effects of culture and the environment on our health and attitudes toward health care; and
• analyzing the political processes and social policies that affect the health status of populations.