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O H S U F lexes W orkforce D iversity M uscle
Future health
care providers
of color wanted
In 1997, middle school student
Ngum Su signed up for a summer
enrichm ent program at Oregon
Health Sciences University to en
courage her interest in health care.
Today she is a pre-med college
senior at Mississippi State and will
apply to medical school in 2006.
Eventually, Su, an African Ameri
can student, intends to return to
Oregon to practice medicine.
“This type o f program is often
referred to as feeding the pipeline,”
said Jilma Meneses, director of the
Affirmative Action and Equal Op
portunity Department at OHSU.
“The goal is to train a future work
force that years down the road will
hopefully choose OHSU.”
Nationwide, minority groups are
poorly represented in the health
care professions. In 2003, just 5
percent of the health sciences de
grees awarded by the Oregon Uni
versity System in 2003 were earned
by people who identified them
selves as African Americans or
Hispanic and Latino.
Reversing this trend is difficult
because health care professions
may require long and costly train
ing periods and “some minority
students lack adequate support,
funding and role models,” said
Leslie D. Garcia, director of the
OHSU Center for Diversity and
Multicultural Affairs.
About 220 middle school stu
dents like Su have participated in
the “YO Science” enrichment pro
gram for minority and disadvan
taged students. Based on tracking
since 1997, these students go on to
graduate from high school and
many are already pursuing ad
vanced degrees or certification in
health care professions.
New programs starting up this
summer for minority high school
and college students at OHSU will
be funded with a$ 1.4 million federal
grant recently awarded to Stephanie
Anderson, M.D., assistant dean for
minority affairs in the OHSU School
of Medicine.
While laws require certain orga
nizations to pursue work force di
versity, M eneses said, “it also
makes good business sense. OHSU
wants employees who are cultur-
OHSU facilities, 3,000housing units,
parks and transit facilities. The
project will generate over 5,000jobs
for the region.
In addition, OHSU is partnering
with several private and public en
tities, unions, and grass roots orga
nization to form an entity known as
CAW S (Construction Apprentice
ship W orkforce Solutions) to en
hance similar efforts to train and
hire minorities and women for jobs
in the construction industry.
Local middle school
students Totiana and
Tiesha place sealants on
real teeth at last year's
YO Science Program at
Oregon Health Sciences
University.
ally sensitive to our minority pa
tients in order to provide the best
health care possible.”
OHSU is flexing its muscle to
increase diversity in other profes
sions too. For instance, OHSU has
set a goal of 35 percent minorities
and women on the work force of the
South W aterfront C onstruction
Project. The 30-acre site will ulti
mately include an expansion of
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In this role, he is responsible for
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opened in D ecem ber 1995 as a
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in the redevelopm ent o f north and
northeast Portland.
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