Current & Recent CHSIR Projects

Health

The Oregon Health Plan Lottery: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Medicaid Eligibility and Coverage, Matthew Carlson PI and Bill Wright co-PI with Providence Health Systems Center for Outcomes Research and Education in collaboration with MIT Dept. of Economics and the Harvard School of Public Health

Impact of Oregon Health Plan Changes on Health Care Access and Quality: Matthew Carlson, Principal Investigator (PI) and Bill Wright, Co-Investigator (co-PI) with Providence Center for Health Outcomes Research Education (CORE)

The Social and Economic Impact of Eliminating Medicaid Dental Benefits: Evidence from the Oregon Health Plan for Oregon, Matthew Carlson PI with co-PIs:David Mosen, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research; John McConnell,  Department of Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU); Bill Wright, CORE; and Neal Wallace, School of Community Health at Portland State University (PSU)

Oregon Community Health Integrated Data Systems Project (ORCHIDS), through the Oregon Community Information Network (OCHIN), Matthew Carlson co-PI, and Olivia Thomas, co-PI; with OCHIN’s Mike Leahy PI in collaboration with the Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research, Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research and the Oregon Division of Medical Assistance Programs

Neighborhoods

Examining Race and Ownership Status in Long-term Businesses and Organizations’ Reactions to Gentrification, Daniel Sullivan PI

Invasion-Succession or Welcome Mat: Examining Race and Ownership Status in Low-Income Neighborhoods: Daniel Sullivan PI

Social and Environmental Sustainability

Socioeconomic assessment of Coral Reef Resource Use and Management in the Comoros; Veronica Dujon, co-PI with Elis Granek PI with PSU's Environmental Science and Management Programs

Contested Water Rights in the Klamath Basin: Veronica Dujon PI

Immigration

Obstacles to Latino Immigrant Assimilation in Oregon’s New Immigrant Destinations: Jose Padin PI

Social and Criminal Justice

Gender Differences in Drug Use and Crime: Patterns of Continuity and Change Melissa Thompson PI with co-PI Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota, and consultant Brent Fuller, OHSU

Gender, Mental Illness & Criminal Justice, Melissa Thompson PI

Education

Student Mentors Inspiring Latino Excellence/Somos Mentores Impulsando Latinos al Exito (SMILE) , José Padin PI with the Portland Public Schools District including the following high schools: Roosevelt, Jefferson, Madison, and Marshall; and middle schools including George, Ockley Green, Clarendon at Portsmouth, Madison, 8th Grade Academy, Roseway Heights, Rigler, Lane, Clark at Binsmeade, Harvey Scot, and Lent.

Students First: Improving First-Generation Student Retention in Higher Education: Peter Collier PI with consultants, David Morgan and Amy Driscoll

Director: Alex Stepick, stepick@pdx.edu or 503-725-9843

Program Planing and Grants Director: Olivia Thomas, thomaso@pdx.edu or 503-725-9575


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