Oregon Public Health Institute
For over two decades, the Oregon Public Health Institute (OPHI) has worked to support Oregonians in the places where people live, learn, work, play, and practice spirituality. OPHI strives to improve health, advance equity, and respond to public health needs for all people and communities.
Featured Programs
Right From the Start
OPHI’s Right From The Start program promotes health equity for African/African American/Black children in the Portland metro area by supporting Black childcare providers, traditional health workers, and early life professionals in creating holistically healthy learning environments for children ages 0-6.
Oregon Health & Outdoors Initiative
We know that time outdoors can improve health, but not everyone has access to safe, welcoming natural places. Rural communities, communities of color, low-income communities, people with disabilities, and other groups face barriers to spending time in the outdoors and are also more likely to experience health disparities than white, middle- and high-income people.
Tracing Health
Tracing Health is the Oregon Public Health Institute’s and the Public Health Institute’s groundbreaking COVID-19 response program. Tracing Health provides contact tracing, case investigation, wraparound support, epidemiology and data analysis, IT support and more to public health and healthcare partners.