Spotlights
Jamie Bash
Jamie Bash graduated in 2001, with a major in international relations and a minor in Spanish. While at GVSU, Jamie studied abroad in Spain and interned with International Aid in Honduras. She worked in the mortgage industry for a few years and interned with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the Food Systems Economic Partnership in Ann Arbor prior to earning her master’s degree in public health from Portland State University in 2011.
From 2011 to 2016, Jamie worked as a program coordinator for Medical Teams International (MTI), organizing volunteer community health and medical teams to many countries. She worked with six different partners in Haiti, Honduras, and Nicaragua and two MTI field offices in Haiti and Guatemala.
For the past 9 years into today, Jamie has been working as an Operation & Policy Analyst/Risk Communications Analyst under Oregon Health Authority. Her work played a crucial role in strategizing and developing timely response communications for numerous environmental, climate, and disease threats, including COVID-19, the opioid crisis, extreme wildfire smoke, Salem cyanotoxins, and the oil train derailment in Mosier, OR.
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