Team

Meet the team

We are part of the OHSU-PSU School of Health and their universities more broadly. We are students, staff, and faculty working across fields of health inequities, neurodiversity, policy, and STEM training.

In alphabetical order by last name

Teala W. Alvord, B.S., MPH

Evaluation Coordinator, Clark County Public Health; Former Lab Manager, Marriott lab

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Alexis Dinno, Sc.D.

A social epidemiologist whose recent paper gives advice for phrasing sex and gender demographic questions in health research.
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Morrison, T., Dinno, A., & Salmon, T. (2021). The Erasure of Intersex, Transgender, Nonbinary, and Agender Experiences Through Misuse of Sex and Gender in Health Research. American Journal of Epidemiology, 190(12), 2712-2717. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwab221

Jae Downing, Ph.D.

Jae Downing studies impacts of gender and sexual-orientation based discrimination on access to healthcare. They aim to understand the impacts of gender and sexual-orientation based discrimination on access to healthcare.

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Shanthia Espinosa

BUILD EXITO and McNair Scholar; Senior Research Assistant, Marriott lab. Studying motivational resilience and supports for Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students. She is a CDC CUPS trainee at UCLA in summer 2022

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Medina Lamkin, BS

Senior Research Assistant, Marriott Lab. Medina majored in Computer Science and minored in math. Her interests are in data science and the user experience.

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B. Lentz, B.S.

Senior Research Assistant, Marriott Lab. Passionate about accessibility and neurodiversity.

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Mollie Marr, PhD

Mollie is an MD/PhD student who is finishing her medical degree. This spring, she was accepted to the Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program -- 3 months in Washington, DC, working on scientific policy with the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine (CWSEM).

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Lisa K. Marriott, PhD

Associate Professor in the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. Studies applied science education and biomedical workforce development.

More about Lisa | marriott@ohsu.edu

Marriott, L.K*., Raz Link, A*, Anitori, R., Blackwell, E., Blas, A., Brock, J, Burke, T, Cabrera, A.P., Helsham, D., Liban, L.B., Mackiewicz, M.R., Maruyama, M., Milligan-Myhre, K.C.A., Pangelinan, P.J.C., Hattori-Uchima, M., Reed, R., Simon, B.E., Solomon, B., Trinidad, A.M.O., Wyatt, L.R., Delgado Covarrubia, A., Burrows, J.A., Zell, A., Keller, T, Morris, C, Crespo, C. (2021). Supporting biomedical research training for historically underrepresented undergraduates using interprofessional, informal curricular structures. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 21(1), 241-286. Retrieved https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/30430 doi: 10.14434/josotl.v21i1.30430 [*Joint first author]

Phuc Nguyen, B.S.

Research Assistant in the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health (until April 2022) and now in the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences

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Stephanie Paris, BS

Graduate student in Professional & Technical Writing, Portland State University; Research Project Coordinator and Lab Manager,

Marriott Lab.

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Aaron Raz Link, MFA, MA

Aaron works with underserved populations and is a gifted mentor. With BUILD EXITO, he is an instructional lead, mentor, and writing support professional.

Dawn Richardson, Dr.P.H.

Associate Dean, Social Justice in the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. Studies pathways by which the unequal distributions of income, power and wealth (based on gender, race, ethnicity, immigration status, e.g.) affect health outcomes, social mobility, and access to opportunity.

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Gee Seethavongsack

BUILD EXITO Scholar; Trainee in Marriott lab. Gee studies cognitive function of Thai adolescents and is passionate about global health. She is a Fulbright Scholar semi-finalist and CDC CUPS trainee at UCLA in summer 2022.

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Trainees

Many on this collaboration in Marriott's lab and have been current or former trainees with the NIH-funded BUILD EXITO program. As the largest member of the NIH Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) consortium, Enhancing Cross- Disciplinary Infrastructure and Training at Oregon (EXITO) is a partnership of universities and community colleges around the Pacific Rim, including Portland State University, Oregon Health & Sciences University, University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Guam, America Samoa Community College, Clackamas Community College (OR), Clark Community College (WA), Northern Marianas Community College, and Portland Community College (OR).

Shanthia Espinosa, B.S.
Brandy Lentz, B.S.
Medina Lamkin, B.S.
Gee Setthavongsack, B.S.
Teala Alvord, B.S., MPH
Stephanie Paris, B.S.
Phuc Nguyen, B.S.

Funding

Collaborative work on this project was made possible by a NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) and an Excellence in DEIA Mentoring award (R25GM129840). Additional funding through a National Cancer Institute Youth Enjoy Science grant (R25CA221741), OCTRI Clinical & Translational Service Award (1UL1TR002369), EXITO training grant (RL5GM118963, TL4GM118965, and UL1GM118964), and a research training award (F30MH118762). The work is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official view of the National Institutes of Health. The authors have no conflicts of interest.

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