Board

Alex Bassos, JD
Alex is the Training Director for the Metropolitan Public Defender in Multnomah and Washington Counties, specializing in cases that fall at the intersection of mental health and criminal justice.  He is the vice chair of the board of Disability Rights Oregon and a member of the Public Health Institutional Review Board.

Jennifer Bryman, BSBA

Jennifer Bryman is a business professional with 13 years of experience in the Financial Services industry. Her specialties include Consumer Marketing, Strategic Planning, Sales and Operations Management. She brings her passion for finding solutions to combat childhood obesity in minority and disadvantaged communities to Upstream. Jennifer is also a volunteer with the Portland Public Market project.

Damien Fair, PA-C, PhD

Damien is a cognitive neuroscientist at Oregon Health and Science University. He studies brain maturation using imaging techniques, such as MRI, in typically and atypically developing populations. His current work focuses on finding better ways to characterize individual patients with disorders, such as ADHD and Autism. He hopes this work will ultimately lead to improved preventative and treatment strategies.  His past clinical experience as a Physician Assistant focused on cerebrovascular diseases, including stroke treatment and prevention.

Stephanie Farquhar, PhD
Stephanie is an Associate Professor at the School of Community Health at Portland State University and a researcher on several projects, including a National Institutes of Health grant to address environmental and occupational health concerns of indigenous and migrant farm workers in Oregon. Her work draws upon the principles of community-based research to address how environmental and social justice issues impact public health.

Mandy Green, MPH
Mandy works as an environmental and occupational epidemiologist for the Oregon Public Health Division.  She coordinates public health surveillance projects that examine environmental health hazards and the related human health outcomes, as well as work-related illness and injury. She has experience with community-based participatory research, health impact assessments, women's health, geographic information systems (GIS) for community health mapping, and physical activity promotion.

Daniel López-Cevallos, PhD, MPH
Daniel is Assistant Professor of Community Health at Western Oregon University. He works with vulnerable communities in integrated health development projects in Ecuador and the United States and has worked with Latino communities in Benton and Linn Counties for the past four years as a research and evaluation assistant for the HIV Integration Project and other health department initiatives. 

Kathleen McAuliffe, MD, MPH 
Kathleen is a Board-certified family physician practicing at Portland State University's Center for Student Health and Counseling. Over her 30-year practice, she has worked in population-based prevention services as well as direct patient care; she had spent the last 15 years working in safety-net settings.

Mellie Pullman, PhD

Mellie Pullman is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at Portland State University. Her major research interests address sustainability practices in food and beverage supply chains. Currently, she is researching social networks of sustainability practices and food cooperatives. She works with other food non-profits including Food Alliance and the Slow Food Chapter of Wallowa County and many regional sustainability-focused food and beverage producers, distributors, and retailers.