Portland Native Selected as First Dean of OHSU-PSU School of Public Health

It's going to be the first urban school of public health in Oregon and now it someone to lead it.

Dr. David Bangsberg, who grew up in Portland, is leaving his job as director of MGH Global Health at Massachusetts General to become the founding dean of the new OHSU-PSU School of Public Health.

He starts on Friday September 16.

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"My first college lecture was at PSU and my first research job was at OHSU. I studied in the PSU and OHSU libraries as a teenager in order to better imagine what it would be like to be a member of these universities," said Bangsberg.

A graduate of Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, Bangsberg studied neuroscience at the University of Rochester in New York and the philosophy of science at King’s College London before receiving his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also received a Masters in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. His academic research career began at the University of California, San Francisco, where he created one of the leading programs on health disparities among the urban poor in the United States.