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.

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.

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.

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.

Craig Mosbaek, MPH (Chair)
Craig is Senior Research Analyst for Program Design and Evaluation Services, a joint project with the Multnomah County Health Department and the Oregon Department of Human Services.  He has worked for 20 years doing research and evaluation in the fields of criminal justice and public health, focusing on tobacco control and chronic disease prevention.  He founded the Portland Farmers Market in 1992 and has been on the founding boards of Oregon's Future (now Sockeye) magazine and the Northwest Media Literacy Center.

Wendy Willis, JD
Wendy is the Deputy Director for National Programs at the National Policy Consensus Center at Portland State University. She approaches Upstream's work as a parent of young children and a devotee to the power of civic engagement.