Oregon Environmental
Health Association
OEHA Book Discussion Group
Welcome!
Lunch discussions just got way more interesting
Looking for a community to explore new ideas, expand your mind, learn more about Environmental Health, and read some fascinating books?
Drop in on OEHA's one-of-a-kind Book Club!
We read a book (or, most of it, depending upon what life delivers) and meet for lunch and informal discussion on Teams for about a half hour on the second Tuesday of each month. Join us every month or when you have the time. (Really - it's ok to drop in, and completely ok if you don't finish the book by the time we get together.)
Curious about the books we might be reading?
Check out GoodReads' "Books for Environmental Health Specialists" List, and check out our reading list below.
Want to drop in? Contact us here and we'll send you the Teams link.
Second Tuesday of Every Month. Take a look at what we're reading, below.
Read A Book
That Will Change the Way
You Do Your Work
July and Aug. 2025
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman
April 2025
Rough Sleepers
Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people, by Tracy Kidder
Sept. 2024
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
“The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”
Feb. 2024
Kitchen Confidential
Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, by Anthony Bourdain
June 2025
The Demon in the Freezer
by Richard Preston
"A nonfiction book on smallpox and anthrax and how the American government develops defensive measures against them."
March 2025
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
"Because of the public response to The Jungle, the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906, and conditions in American slaughterhouses were improved."
Nov. 2024
Who Watches the Kitchen?
June and July 2024
Slow Death by Rubber Duck
March 2024
Most Delicious Poison
The Story of Nature's Toxins, from Spices to Vices, by Noah Whiteman