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By Alan R. Weil, Health Affairs, December 9, 2019 This month’s Health Affairs explores many dimensions of health and health care for the one out of five Americans who live in what the US Census Bureau defines as a rural area. Much attention is focused these days on the relatively poor health outcomes and heightened rate of socioeconomic disadvantage of rural America. As Janice Probst and colleagues point out in their overview paper, rural mortality rates only started falling behind urban...

Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI) is hosting a public virtual Resilient Leaders Initiative celebration event on Wednesday, November 17 th from 2:30-3:30pm EST. Please share widely To register, please click here: https://tinyurl.com/RLIcelebration During this event you will hear: a keynote speech from Representative & Pastor James Gailliard highlights from all 4 local organizations who have been implementing new trauma-informed practices in Edgecombe County throughout the past year Link...

By Vichi Jagannathan , Rural Opportunity Institute Co-Founder — October 27, 2022 (2019 Camelback Ventures Fellow | 2020 Capital Collaborative Alumni Board Member) I first moved to rural Eastern North Carolina in 2011 as a Teach for America corps member. Up until then, I had only lived in cities and suburbs. My parents, both immigrants from India, always stressed the importance of education, so I dutifully attended the best educational institutions I could access, including Princeton,...