Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Networking and collaboration
The Power of Familiar Voices: Building HPV Vaccine Trust in Rural Communities
Discusses the role of trust among rural community members, healthcare professionals, and other community leaders in promoting HPV vaccination. Discusses churches, other faith-based settings, and other trusted institutions as sites for collaborations to increase vaccine uptake and address rural cancer disparities.
Author(s): Gabriel Benavidez
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organization: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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Discusses the role of trust among rural community members, healthcare professionals, and other community leaders in promoting HPV vaccination. Discusses churches, other faith-based settings, and other trusted institutions as sites for collaborations to increase vaccine uptake and address rural cancer disparities.
Author(s): Gabriel Benavidez
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organization: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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Beyond Engineering How Planners Can Leverage Culture & Systems Thinking for Safer Rural Roads
Recorded webinar that discusses strategies to strengthen community alignment and partnerships to improve traffic safety in rural areas. Focuses on system change and presenting traffic safety as a public health issue. Transcript available below description.
Additional links: Presentation Slides
Author(s): Jay Otto
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organizations: Banyan Collaborative, National Association of Development Organizations
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Recorded webinar that discusses strategies to strengthen community alignment and partnerships to improve traffic safety in rural areas. Focuses on system change and presenting traffic safety as a public health issue. Transcript available below description.
Additional links: Presentation Slides
Author(s): Jay Otto
Date: 01/2026
Sponsoring organizations: Banyan Collaborative, National Association of Development Organizations
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Transportation Planning in Non-Metropolitan/Rural Areas 2026
Discusses transportation planning in rural and non-metro areas, exploring the ongoing roles of state departments of transportation (DOTs), regional planning entities (RPEs), and Regional Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPOs) to collaborate and focus on rural planning. Provides a literature review, survey data from transportation planning entities, and case studies.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Date: 2026
Sponsoring organizations: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Transportation Research Board
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Discusses transportation planning in rural and non-metro areas, exploring the ongoing roles of state departments of transportation (DOTs), regional planning entities (RPEs), and Regional Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPOs) to collaborate and focus on rural planning. Provides a literature review, survey data from transportation planning entities, and case studies.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Date: 2026
Sponsoring organizations: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Transportation Research Board
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Navigating Tribal Transportation Funding
A fact sheet that describes tribal transportation funding opportunities as well as strategies to coordinate transportation services and programs in tribal areas.
Date: 2026
Sponsoring organizations: Administration for Community Living, Federal Transit Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation
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A fact sheet that describes tribal transportation funding opportunities as well as strategies to coordinate transportation services and programs in tribal areas.
Date: 2026
Sponsoring organizations: Administration for Community Living, Federal Transit Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation
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Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network 2026 Economic Summit
Provides links to presentation slides from the Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network 2026 Economic Summit, focused on issues such as rural health economic models, hospital innovations, rural hospital development, and collaboration and partnerships.
Author(s): Amanda Weinstein, Roger Leenerts, Molly Hammond, et al.
Date: 2026
Sponsoring organization: Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network
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Provides links to presentation slides from the Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network 2026 Economic Summit, focused on issues such as rural health economic models, hospital innovations, rural hospital development, and collaboration and partnerships.
Author(s): Amanda Weinstein, Roger Leenerts, Molly Hammond, et al.
Date: 2026
Sponsoring organization: Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network
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Beyond the Battlefield: Restoring Connection for Missouri's Rural Veterans
Assesses health disparities among Missouri's rural veterans and discusses the need for coordinated, statewide action to address veterans' health needs. Highlights topics related to mental health, chronic health conditions, geographic limitations on access to care, broadband infrastructure, and more.
Author(s): Derek Landes, Libby Trammell, Kaitlyn Onanian
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Rural Health Association
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Assesses health disparities among Missouri's rural veterans and discusses the need for coordinated, statewide action to address veterans' health needs. Highlights topics related to mental health, chronic health conditions, geographic limitations on access to care, broadband infrastructure, and more.
Author(s): Derek Landes, Libby Trammell, Kaitlyn Onanian
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: Missouri Rural Health Association
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2025 Idaho Medical Education (UME) Plan
Outlines policy recommendations from the Idaho Undergraduate Medical Education Plan Working Group to address physician shortages across the state. Recommendations discuss existing and new partnerships, moving Idaho residents into and through the physician workforce pipeline, incentives for retention, and funding needs. Discusses rural throughout.
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: Idaho State Board of Education Undergraduate Medical Education Plan Working Group
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Outlines policy recommendations from the Idaho Undergraduate Medical Education Plan Working Group to address physician shortages across the state. Recommendations discuss existing and new partnerships, moving Idaho residents into and through the physician workforce pipeline, incentives for retention, and funding needs. Discusses rural throughout.
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: Idaho State Board of Education Undergraduate Medical Education Plan Working Group
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Implementing Nutrition Policy, System and Environmental Change Strategies in a Rural Food Pantry to Improve Nutrition Security: Contextual Factors and Outcomes
Discusses policy, system, and environmental (PSE) food security strategies by analyzing the facilitators and barriers at a volunteer-run food pantry in rural Georgia. Utilizes client surveys, informant interviews, and program documents to examine the pantry's nutrition policy, food storage methods, partnerships, capacity, volunteer expertise, and more.
Author(s): April K. Hermstad, Lauren M. Bigger, Karen Ebey-Tessendorf, Gloria C. Simmons, Michelle C. Kegler
Citation: Public Health Nutrition, 29(1),12
Date: 12/2025
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Discusses policy, system, and environmental (PSE) food security strategies by analyzing the facilitators and barriers at a volunteer-run food pantry in rural Georgia. Utilizes client surveys, informant interviews, and program documents to examine the pantry's nutrition policy, food storage methods, partnerships, capacity, volunteer expertise, and more.
Author(s): April K. Hermstad, Lauren M. Bigger, Karen Ebey-Tessendorf, Gloria C. Simmons, Michelle C. Kegler
Citation: Public Health Nutrition, 29(1),12
Date: 12/2025
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Public Health Ethics and Stakeholder Engagement: Considerations and Practices for Local Health Departments
Toolkit providing strategies and resources on the use of stakeholder engagement to support public health ethics in local health departments. Includes action steps and case studies, and highlights ethical considerations related to community engagement and collaboration. See PDF pages 12-14 for a case study on access to care in rural areas.
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: National Association of County and City Health Officials
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Toolkit providing strategies and resources on the use of stakeholder engagement to support public health ethics in local health departments. Includes action steps and case studies, and highlights ethical considerations related to community engagement and collaboration. See PDF pages 12-14 for a case study on access to care in rural areas.
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: National Association of County and City Health Officials
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Awakening the Seeds In Native Youth: Native Farm to School Evaluation Report
Discusses the Native Farm to School project, a food systems initiative that supports tribal communities in integrating sustainable cultural practices, land stewardship, and traditional foods into their local Indigenous food systems. Provides details on a 2023-2025 USDA-FNS and Newman's Own Foundation grant that enabled 16 tribal communities across the U.S. to revitalize their food systems through school programming and community partnerships.
Author(s): Leah Simeon, Richard Elm-Hill, Cetan Christensen, et al.
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: First Nations Development Institute
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Discusses the Native Farm to School project, a food systems initiative that supports tribal communities in integrating sustainable cultural practices, land stewardship, and traditional foods into their local Indigenous food systems. Provides details on a 2023-2025 USDA-FNS and Newman's Own Foundation grant that enabled 16 tribal communities across the U.S. to revitalize their food systems through school programming and community partnerships.
Author(s): Leah Simeon, Richard Elm-Hill, Cetan Christensen, et al.
Date: 12/2025
Sponsoring organization: First Nations Development Institute
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