Brian is an Assistant Professor at the OHSU Department of Family Medicine and Course Director for RLI at OHSU. With nearly a decade of experience as a community organizer, Brian is passionate about community building, social change, and health equity. He merges these interests both as the director of the Relational Leadership Institute and as the director of Health Equity And Leadership, a program that increases patient/community capacity to address the social determinants of health.
Beginning at OHSU and beyond, RLI’s interactive curriculum is designed for participants to synthesize their learning and explore ways to incorporate what they’ve learned into their lives.
We sought to develop a new leadership model — one that would not only draw from community organizing — but also based on research in sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and organizational development.