Center for Community and Global Health
Welcome to your home for ideas about health and healing. At the Center for Community and Global Health (CCGH), we demonstrate how the liberal arts and sciences provide an ideal foundation for health-related careers.
CCGH brings together multidisciplinary perspectives that give us an appreciation for healing in many forms. From the physical to social to systemic, we explore the many domains of study that connect to health.
We offer pre-health and pre-med advising, coursework, internship experiences, community collaborations, story-telling, and scholarly activity to Lewis & Clark students with an interest in health and healing.
Moving the Field of Healthcare Towards Greater Equity
We recognize the harms done to BIPOC in healthcare systems and studies, and see a critical need for greater diversity, equity and inclusion in the health professions to remedy those historic and ongoing harms. CCGH gives all students the tools necessary to hear, comprehend, and be moved to address systemic bias in healthcare. We are committed to recognizing past wrongs, moving the healthcare field in the direction of greater equity, and offering more students from diverse and adverse backgrounds the experiences and support necessary to enter the health professions.
Honoring the Ground on Which We Stand
We honor the indigenous people on whose traditional and ancestral homelands we stand: the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, and Watalala bands of the Chinook; the Tualatin Kalapuya; and many other indigenous nations of the Columbia River.
It is important to acknowledge the ancestors of this place and recognize that we are here because of the sacrifices forced upon them. In remembering these communities, we honor their legacy, their lives, and their descendants.
News
How Migrant Stories Are Told
A new course, Playing at the Border: Migration and Art, examines how migrant and refugee stories are told in film, theatre, and visual art, providing students with opportunities to engage directly with Portland’s immigrant communities.
Come to Narrative Medicine Skills Training!
With support from the Mellon Foundation, Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative (NWNMC) is developing Narrative Medicine Skills Training.
Narrative Medicine Skills Training introduces the narrative medicine principles of attention, representation, and affiliation and develops participant skills of listening and witnessing. We will reflect on how listening and witnessing can be applied to stories of health, illness and healing in diverse healthcare settings to improve care and support healing.
Training is open to students, health professionals, faculty, staff and community members– anyone curious about the practice of narrative medicine.
Narrative Medicine Skills Training
Saturday, February, 22
8:45-3:30
in-person and on-campus
Smith Hall
Lewis & Clark College
Register Here
Health Coverage: How Potential Providence Strike Impacts Patients
Carolyn Zook, Associate Director at the L&C Center for Community and Global Health is featured in this KGW8 story on the possibility of healthcare strikes in Oregon. She shares her expertise alongside L&C Law School Prof. Keith Cunningham-Parmeter
WATCH HERE
