News 2020
Rural Health Study Prepares to Recruit Oktibbeha Residents
For most of the 20th Century, experts hailed the health benefits of country living. Fresh air, less-crowded living conditions and homegrown food sources were lauded as a preferable alternative to urban living.
RURAL Study Begins Outreach and Community Engagement in Mississippi
Bascom K. Reprinted with permission of the Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association, 2019;61(5):148-149. RURAL study begins outreach and community engagement in North Mississippi
RURAL Study Brings Outreach, Community Engagement in North Mississippi
Page 6 in the March issue of Mississippi RURAL Health Association’s Crossroads discusses UMMC’s local engagements that researchers engaged in so far.
TEDx: Rapid decline in rural health – What’s in a zip code?
At this TEDxBeaconStreetSalon event, Dr. Vasan Ramachandran, PI of The RURAL Study, discusses health inequities in rural areas
Dr. George O’Connor Named to Boston Magazine Top Docs
Dr. O’Connor, PI of RURAL’s Pulmonary Core, has been named one of the top doctors in his field in the Boston area.