Florida resources via the Rural Health Information Hub

Resource: Florida Rural Obstetrical Workforce

Wed, 27 May 2026 09:56:17 -0500

Offers maps and tables of the obstetricians and advanced practice midwives workforce distribution in Florida in 2025. Includes county-level data and rural and urban comparisons. -- WWAMI Rural Health Research Center

Resource: Florida Rural Behavioral Health Workforce

Wed, 27 May 2026 09:55:17 -0500

Offers maps and tables of the supply and distribution of behavioral health clinicians in Florida in 2025. Includes county-level data and rural and urban comparisons. -- WWAMI Rural Health Research Center

Resource: Florida Rural Primary Care Workforce

Wed, 27 May 2026 09:53:57 -0500

Event: 2027 40th Annual Rural Health Care Leadership Conference

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Orlando FL
January 31, 2027 -- American Hospital Association

Resource: Florida Health 2025 Workforce Survey of Dental Hygienists

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:22:46 -0500

Analyzes data from the Florida dental hygienist license renewal period ending February 28, 2024. Features demographics, statistics, and a county-level map showing the number of dental hygienists in each county as of 2023-2024. -- Florida Health

Resource: Florida Health 2025 Workforce Survey of Dentists

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:08:59 -0500

Explores Florida's dentist workforce supply, practice settings, and long-term professional outlook. Features demographics, statistics, and a county-level map showing number of dentists in each county as of 2023-2024. -- Florida Health

Event: 2026 Annual Florida Public Health Educational Conference with Dedicated Rural Health Track

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Kissimmee FL
July 29, 2026 -- Florida Public Health Association, Florida Rural Health Association

Event: 2026 Annual CADCA's Mid-Year Training Institute

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Orlando FL
July 12, 2026 -- Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America

Event: 2026 USET Strengthening Tribal Resilience, Operations and Nation Growth (STRONG) Training

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600

Miami FL
July 8, 2026

Resource: Florida Rural Health Transformation Program

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:26:05 -0600

Provides information on Florida's Rural Health Transformation Program. Presents an overview of goals and key initiatives, a regional map, latest news and resources, upcoming events, and links to Florida's application. Shares details on the state RHTP funding opportunities. -- Florida Agency for Health Care Administration

Organization: Southeast CMS QIN-QIO

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:03:52 -0500

A Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) that works to improve clinical quality and better outcomes in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Resource: Predictors of County-Level Diabetes-Related Mortality Risks in Florida, USA: A Retrospective Ecological Study

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:23:51 -0600

Examines geographic disparities in diabetes-related mortality risk (DRMR) in Florida. Explores the association between county-level factors and DRMR, including data on rurality, age, health behaviors, and more.

Resource: Florida Rural Health Clinics, Rural Hospitals, and Rural Hospitals that are Critical Access Hospitals, 2024

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:18:19 -0600

Map of Florida's Rural Health Clinics and rural hospitals, including Critical Access Hospitals. -- Florida Rural Health Association

Resource: 2022-24 Florida Physician Assistant Workforce Survey Report

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:23:24 -0500

Results of a survey of 14,427 physician assistants (PAs) who renewed their Florida licenses in 2022 and 2024. Features statistics including number of Florida PAs whose primary practice locations were rural clinics or rural hospitals. -- Florida Health

Resource: Science by the Slice: Rural Community Health Science, Policy, and the Future: Episode 1

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:01:38 -0500

Video podcast episode highlighting the 2024 State of the Science Meeting from the Southeastern Coastal Center for Agricultural Health and Safety featuring 3 speakers at the meeting. Discusses culturally sensitive health interventions, solutions to healthcare gaps for rural areas, health for farmworkers, and the role of Cooperative Extension while highlighting examples in Florida and Mississippi. Transcript in the video description. -- Southeastern Coastal Center for Agricultural Health and Safety

Funding opportunity: Medical Student Education Program

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:18:34 -0500

Grants for public medical schools to expand or support education for medical students preparing to become physicians in states with primary care provider shortages. The program focus is on supporting careers in primary care in rural and other areas with a primary care provider shortage. -- Bureau of Health Workforce, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Funding opportunity: American Connection Corps

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:17:10 -0500

A 1-year fellowship program that trains and mobilizes leaders to work in rural and emerging communities to coordinate broadband development and digital inclusion. -- AmeriCorps

Resource: With New EMS Quality Measures, Florida Aims to Have a National Impact on Rural Care

Fri, 24 May 2024 13:31:36 -0500

Features the Feasible, Actionable, Impactful and Relevant (FAIR) EMS Measurement Project, an initiative by the Florida Department of Health which developed rural-relevant EMS quality measures for use in the state and nationally. -- Rural Health Information Hub

Organization: Southeastern Coastal Center for Agricultural Health and Safety

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:30:32 -0500

Works to address agricultural, fishing, and forestry health and safety concerns in 8 coastal states and territories through research, outreach, and educational resources. A NIOSH Agricultural Safety and Health Center lead by the University of Florida in partnership with 5 other universities in Florida, Georgia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Organization: Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:19:12 -0500

Works to address agricultural and forestry safety concerns across the Southeastern U.S. through data surveillance, outreach, and evaluation. A NIOSH Agricultural Safety and Health Center located at the University of Kentucky.

Resource: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of HIV Clinical Outcomes in Florida Reveals Counties with Persistent Racial and Ethnic Disparities During 2012-2019

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:35:02 -0500

Analyzes health and treatment disparities among White, Hispanic, and Black people with HIV in Florida, covering viral suppression and immune reconstitution, impact of social and ecological factors, geographic variation, and changes over time. Utilizes 2012-2019 Florida Department of Health Ryan White program enrollee data. See Supplemental Table 1 for county-by-county data on risk of non-suppression among Black versus Non-Black people with HIV.

Resource: CommHIT Shoots for the Moon

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:03:48 -0600

Features a Rural Public Health Workforce Training Network grantee, CommHIT, that is assisting Florida partners with workforce development initiatives. Describes its workforce development efforts focused on community health workers (CHWs) and community paramedics, as well as cybersecurity and other technology-related trainings. -- Rural Health Information Hub

Funding opportunity: Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC) J-1 Visa Waiver Program

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:49:33 -0600

Offers a J-1 Visa waiver to foreign physicians who commit to serving for 3 years in rural areas within the Southeast Crescent service area, allowing them to remain in the United States.

Resource: Determinants of Disparities of Diabetes-Related Hospitalization Rates in Florida: A Retrospective Ecological Study Using a Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression Approach

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:06:16 -0600

Analyzes the determinants related to diabetes hospitalizations in Florida according to ZIP code tabulation area (ZCTA) level. Utilizes 2016 to 2019 data to examine socioeconomic, demographic, healthcare-related, and built environment characteristics that correlate with diabetes-related hospitalizations. Includes state maps showing diabetes hospitalizations according to specific determinants, including rurality.

Organization: Southeast Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Regional Center

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:24:44 -0600

Offers evidence-based programming, resources, and trainings on rural opioid and stimulant use in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Funding opportunity: Region IV Public Health and Primary Care Leadership Institute

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:39:22 -0500

A leadership and educational opportunity in the southeast region that focuses on adaptive leadership in public health and primary care. Participants will experience group and individual assignments, panels, lectures, webinars, and discussions, and use problem-based learning to explore real-life situations leaders face in the field.

Funding opportunity: Pathways to Practice Scholars Field Placement Program - Public Health Region IV

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:10:18 -0500

Field placements and stipends for current public health students in the Southeastern Region.

Resource: Florida's Rural Counties: 2020 Census

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:28:10 -0600

Table listing Florida counties with populations of 75,000 or fewer and counties with populations of 125,000 or fewer which are contiguous to a county of 75,000 or fewer. -- Florida Health

Resource: Geographic Disparities in COVID-19 Testing and Outcomes in Florida

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:12:58 -0600

Identifies geographic disparities in COVID-19 testing, incidence, hospitalizations, and mortality in Florida from March to July 2020. Provides county-level maps of COVID-19 patterns and discusses how spatial analysis can inform preventative public health interventions.

Resource: Remotely Sensed Measures of Hurricane Michael Damage and Adverse Perinatal Outcomes and Access to Prenatal Care Services in the Florida Panhandle

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:50:33 -0600

Examines the damage caused by Hurricane Michael in 2018 on residential buildings in the predominantly rural Florida panhandle and the relationship to adverse perinatal outcomes and access to prenatal care (PNC) services in this population. Compares aerial photography of building damage to 8,965 women's geocoded addresses, utilizing data from the Florida Department of Health's Office of Vital Statistics. Includes demographic information of women giving birth in high risk/damaged areas and the related associations to perinatal outcomes and access to PNC services.