Rural Project Examples: Infrastructure

Promising Examples

ALProHealth

Updated/reviewed March 2023

• Need: To improve access to healthy food and physical activity in rural Alabama.
• Intervention: Researchers hold focus groups with community members to identify issues of the most concern and then help them implement appropriate interventions like installing playground equipment.
• Results: From 2014 to 2018, 14 coalitions implemented 101 interventions in 16 communities.

Other Project Examples

Portable Alternative Sanitation System (PASS)

Updated/reviewed December 2024

• Need: To bring low-cost water and sanitation improvements to homes in tribal villages in Alaska without access to piped water or sewer systems.
• Intervention: The Portable Alternative Sanitation System (PASS) treats hauled water, provides for handwashing with clean water, and disposes waste without traditional piping.
• Results: Residents in the pilot project reported that PASS was cleaner and healthier than the self-haul method.