How do you measure a “dose” of nature? A multi-sector teams’ newly published research agenda says answers to questions like these could yield significant public health insights. Mayor Ted Wheeler takes a celebratory dip at Portland’s new public beach, named Poet’s Beach after the student poem engravings published by Willamette Partnership’s Honoring Our Rivers project. View photos from the 2017 Celebration of People and Water hosted by Willamette Partnership and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. Professionals from both the public health and the science fields must work together to overcome health inequities, says Cameron Brown, a public health graduate student who recently interned with Willamette Partnership. With the last day of school around the corner in Oregon, ’Honoring Our Rivers’ reels in another successful year celebrating the creative voice of students for their watersheds. 
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