Center for Community and Global Health Advisory Board
Lewis & Clark’s Center forCommunity and Global Health Advisory Board was formed to assist the Center in the development of Lewis & Clark’s health related programming and opportunities for our undergraduate students.
Role of the Advisory Board
Students walking through LC campus on a spring day.
Advisory Board members play a critical role in the Center’s educational operations, by expanding student internship, research, and shadowing opportunities, developing a pool of mentors from health professions to help students succeed in graduate programs and post-graduate careers, by identifying professionals and funding sources to support the teaching of applied practica on health-related topics, and providing expertise and guidance to expand our global reach through overseas study and internship opportunities
Support the Lewis & Clark College Center for Community and Global Health
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity or are interested in joining the Advisory Board, contact Advancement officer Hank Coates at hcoates@lclark.edu.
If you would like to support the work of the Center with a monetary gift, we would welcome your contribution! Make a donation here.
Meet the Center for Community and Global Health Advisory Board
Professor, Molecular & Medical Genetics and Medical Director, Knight Diagnostic Laboratories, Cytogenomics Section, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
Professor at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Lewis & Clark College, BA ’84
Support of the CCGH provides:
Membership
Members represent a broad range of experience, expertise, geographical locations, and professional fields that helps them link the classroom to practice by providing student mentoring, program support, and insight for faculty and staff.
Members meet bi-annually and requirements include:
Participating in a minimum of one meeting per year
Committing to a renewable, three-year term
Providing annual financial support for the Center’s initiatives
Paid Internships that expand equitable access to health careers by supporting student stipends for internships in nonprofits, research labs, hospitals, clinics, public health agencies, and more.
Shadowing and Site Visits that build a standing pipeline of observational experiences so students
can see clinical, research, and other health-related professional roles up close.
Student Research Opportunities that support faculty-mentored projects and funding for conference
travel as well as community-based studies that tackle pressing local and global health challenges.
Career Readiness and Skills Training that enable the offering of credit-bearing professional skills
courses for undergraduates and expand the CCGH’s network with alumni and other partners.
On-Campus and Community-Engaged Learning that supports curricular innovations and
programming at L&C as well as projects that pair coursework with community partners’ needs.
Community and Global Health is located in room 307 and 309 of JR Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus. MSC: 25
