In a story about summer enrichment activities for children younger than 5, including swimming lessons, Ben Hoffman, M.D., says: “I would love for people to think about water competence, the ability to protect yourself in water, as an essential life skill sort of the same way we talk about driving. Kids take driver’s ed. Everybody should learn how to swim.”

Brandon Wilder, Ph.D., says there are three main malaria vaccine candidates currently being studied in late-stage clinical trials and notes: “If there was an Operation Warp Speed for malaria, our chances of having an effective vaccine that we could use for elimination in five years would go way up."

While providing outside comment on a study that found about one-third of adolescent and young adult cancer survivors were hesitant to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, Archie Bleyer, M.D., notes the demographics of the surveyed group could have affected the study’s findings.

At a June 30 event organized by Gov. Kate Brown to celebrate lifting the state's pandemic restrictions, Judith Guzman-Cottrill, D.O., says: “We’ve accomplished so much together. But the mission is not yet accomplished. We must celebrate how much and how far we have come. But we must also confront the health disparities that this pandemic has uncovered."

OHSU increased the number of shares it owns in the Vanguard ESG U.S. stock.

To help medical students and residents make the most of their research, Patricia A. Carney, Ph.D., encourages learners to publish in peer-reviewed journals, make poster presentations and promote them via social media,

The Arm-in-Arm Fund is providing financial assistance to patients at the Columbia Memorial Hospital-Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Collaborative.

An Op-ed co-authored by Leslie Bienen, D.V.M., addresses the impact of COVID-19 on teenage mental health.

To better serve patients with opioid use disorder, a project involving Laurel Hallock-Koppelman, D.N.P., aims to lessen the wait time between an emergency department referral and when referred patients receive medication-assisted therapy. Hallock-Koppelman says: “Providing medication-assisted treatment immediately in the ER sends the patient back out with tools to help manage the substance use disorder right away."

In a story about a small, but growing number of gender-affirming surgical fellowships, Daniel Dugi, M.D., describes how he studied abroad to learn surgical techniques because there weren’t formal training opportunities in the U.S. at that time.