More than 52,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2015. Approximately 63 percent of these cases involved prescription or illegal opioids. While this epidemic runs rampant nationwide, its effects continue to be felt here at home. In Oregon, 422,000 residents filled 963,000 opioid prescriptions in just the third quarter of 2016 alone.

Since the Tram opened in January 2007, it has provided more than 16 million trips, with about 9,000 people riding on an average weekday. The tram allowed OHSU to expand to the South Waterfront, a previously underused brownfield industrial site which was difficult to access. Having rapid and reliable transportation to the riverfront made it possible for OHSU to add more than 4,000 jobs and invest more than $1 billion in new buildings to create a world-class bioscience education hub.

Hundreds of people attended the inaugural "Public Health Portland Style" forum to discuss the future of health care.

On the eve of the inauguration of the 45th U.S. president, the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health will host a public discussion aimed at addressing one of the most hotly debated issues of the 2016 presidential election: the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.