OHSU students pick up needle and thread to support vulnerable populations

Students make and distribute hundreds of masks

By Erin Hoover Barnett April 17, 2020 Portland, Oregon

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Dana Button, OHSU School of Medicine M.D. Class of 2022, makes masks for a project organized with fellow students. More than 50 students from the OHSU Schools of Dentistry, Medicine and Nursing and the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health and community members are involved. (OHSU)

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Ashley Stading, OHSU School of Medicine M.D. Class of 2022, has joined students and community members to sew masks for distribution through agencies serving vulnerable communities. (OHSU)

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Huong Nguyen, left, and Bin Chen, OHSU School of Medicine M.D. Class of 2022, are co-leading the effort to sew masks for people in need with their classmate Dana Button. More than 400 have been distributed through nonprofit agencies with plans to produce thousands more. (OHSU)

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Community member Cat Ocenosak joined the OHSU student effort to sew masks for distribution through agencies serving vulnerable communities. (OHSU)

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Charlotte Larson, OHSU School of Medicine M.D. Class of 2022, has joined students and community members to sew masks for distribution through agencies serving vulnerable communities. (OHSU)

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The mask-making effort is a project of the student-run Bridges Collaborative Care Clinic; funding from the clinic and community donations was used to pay for supplies for the mask makers. (OHSU)