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Research & Strategic Partnerships: Quarterly Review, Volume 3, Issue 3, Portland State University. Research & Strategic Partnerships

Portland State Research Magazine

This issue of the Quarterly Review focuses on population health and strategies to improve it. Although these strategies may be revised and added to in the years ahead, the “Triple Aim” of addressing health costs, improving the experience of care, and maintaining healthy populations will undoubtedly remain unchanged, as will our drive to better understand the role of public health in developing resilient people and communities.

The research highlighted in this issue also bears witness to the importance of community and the ways in which Portland State University and the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health are empowering communities to live …

Research & Strategic Partnerships: Quarterly Review, Volume 3, Issue 2, Portland State University. Research & Strategic Partnerships

Portland State Research Magazine

Portland State University plays a central role in our city’s transformation into the country’s leading laboratory for transportation innovation. Starting over a decade ago, our engineering and urban studies researchers began receiving federal funding to study the connections between the ways people get around in cities and their quality of life. This issue of the RSP Quarterly Review highlights this growing body of work, focusing on the contributions made by the Transportation Research and Education Center, or TREC.

Research & Strategic Partnerships: Quarterly Review, Volume 3, Issue 1, Portland State University. Research & Strategic Partnerships

Portland State Research Magazine

To commemorate the opening of Tilikum Crossing and the launch of this dynamic new district, this issue of the RSP Quarterly Review focuses on PSU collaborations with OHSU, OMSI, and the City of Portland.

We start by describing how OMSI, PSU, and OHSU collaborated to bring an exhibit about the human genome from the Smithsonian Institution to Portland. We then present a series of stories about projects building on the complementary health and life science talents of PSU and OHSU researchers. These include a study of ethnic inequities in health care access, a new malaria therapy, tools to improve MRI …