Rural Road to Health

Dr Bita Barghchi is a primary care doctor from Iran.  In this episode she shares her experience of working in rural Iran and talks about some of the challenges faced by rural communities and healthcare workers.   Episode summary: 00.45  Bita tells us about her professional background 01.45  How is the primary care system organized? 03.15  How do patients access secondary care and other health serv...

Prof John Wynn-Jones and Prof Mark Gussey are the co-chairs of the 13th EURIPA Rural Health Forum which will be held in Lincoln in June 2024.  They will tell us more about this upcoming event and their aspirations for the Forum.   Episode summary: 01.15  Prof Gussey shares his journey into rural health 03.40  Prof Wynn-Jones shares his journey into rural health 06.55  What is EURIPA? 08.15  What i...

Prof Lionel Green-Thomson is the dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.  He is also a member of the board of directors at the Network Towards Unit for Health.  We will be talking about the upcoming Ubuntu 2024 conference.  This conference is jointly organized by 5 Universities in South Africa, Rural WONCA and the Network Towards Unity For Health. The...

Prof Nuno Sousa is a neuroradiologist and the Director of the P5 Digital Medical Centre in Portugal. This centre has been developing digital health solutions to support the provision of healthcare in rural areas in Portugal. Their projects have been developed in close collaboration with the local communities they work with.  Episode summary: 01.00  Prof Sousa tells us about his professional backgr...

Dr David Halata  &  Dr Katerina Javorska   are rural family doctors form Czechia. Both of them have been involved in an initiative to improve rural healthcare in Czechia called Go Rural. Dr Halata is the chairman of the Working Group for Rural Medicine in the National society for Family medicine and creator of Go Rural. Dr Javorska is a member of the Working Group on Rural Medicine and has been wo...

Dr Sara Bradley is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of South Wales. Prior to this position she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of the Highlands and Islands, in Scotland working in the Division of Rural Health and Wellbeing.  Her work focuses on social prescribing, rural service provision, mental health and wellbeing and community engagement and co-production. Episod...

Professor Steven Orozco Arcila joins us from the University of Antioquia in Colombia. He teaches a range of subjects including public health, primary care and health promotion. In this episode we explore how conflict has affected the provision of healthcare in rural areas of Colombia. Episode summary: 01.00  Prof. Orozoco Arcila's professional background 04.10  How does conflict impact the health...

Dr Cath Cosgrave is a rural change-maker, strategic advisor, trainer, coach, presenter and evaluator.  She has more than 25 years of experience  working with rural communities developing community-centred, strength-based strategies to effectively address local health and community service issues. Attract Connect Stay website - https://attractconnectstay.com.au/   Episode summary: 00.55  Dr Cosgave...

Dr Kenneth Yakubu completed his PhD at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the co-lead of the George Institute's Ubuntu Initiative for research partnerships in Africa. Dr Yakubu trained as a family physician in Nigeria and practiced there before moving to Australia in 2019. His PhD thesis focused on human-rights based approaches for defining and achieving a...

Welcome back to the Rural Road to Health! Season 2  Episodes will be released on the 10th, 20th and 30th of each month. The first episode will be available on the 20th January.  Feedback form for season 1: https://forms.gle/1XPxUcoiHmVSKRLA8 More information about the podcast: https://theruralroadtohealth.blog/podcast/  

The wrap-up episode to the first season of the Rural Road to Health. I will share some insights with you from my journey creating and hosting the podcast and give you a sneak peek to what is in store for 2024. Please take a few minutes to complete the Feedback form .  This will help in shaping future episodes.   Wishing you all the best for the festive season and the New Year! Thank you for listen...

12th EURIPA Rural Health Forum Summary The forum was held in Romania form the 19th to 22nd of October and brought together over rural family medicine clinicians form accross Europe. Abstract book EURIPA website Please like and share this episode.  You can send your comments about the podcast to ruralroadtohealth@gmail.com If you want to support the work of the podcast please consider donating a Ko...

Professor Shelly Nowlan is Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer for Queensland and the deputy National Rural Health Commissioner for Australia. She has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare and nursing. Episode summary: 01.10  What inspired Shelly to go into rural nursing? 03.00  What does she do in her deputy National Rural Health Commissioner role? 05.30  What is the perception and posit...

Michelle Rathman is the founder of Impact Communications, Inc. a healthcare strategy and communications company.  Since 1997 she has worked with rural health clinics, state offices of rural health and rural hospitals.  Michelle helps facilitate transformation in healthcare settings across the US.  She is also the host of the Rural Impact Podcast which tries to connect the dots between policy and r...

Welcome to Rural Policy Bites. In this episode I will reflect on two events that I have attended in the past few weeks: High-level Rural Policy Forum, Siguenza, Spain Institute for Health Equity Conference, Birmingham, UK   For more information: Rural Pact: https://ruralpact.rural-vision.europa.eu/index_en Rural Observatory: https://observatory.rural-vision.europa.eu/?lng=en&ctx=RUROBS Recording a...

Daniel Dawes is a lawyer, author, scholar, educator and leader in health equity and health reform.  His research focuses on the drivers of health inequities among under-resourced, vulnerable and marginalized communities, he has pioneered a new approach to examining inequities - the political determinants of health.  Daniel was instrumental in shaping the Affordable Care Act in the US (also known a...

Dr John Pawlovic, he is the Chair in Rural health with the University of British Columbia and a family doctor who has dedicated his career to improving the health of rural, remote and Indigenous communities.   We will talk about an innovative project -the Real-Time Virtual Support network which aims to address inequitable access and barriers to healthcare faced by rural, remote and indigenous comm...

This is the second addition of Top Tips for Rural Health Careers .  Our guests to share their top three tips for people thinking about going into rural health careers.   We will hear from: Dr Mercy Wanjala, Dr Sankha Randenikumara, Dr Mayara Floss, Aebhric O'Kelly, Major Dr Ashlesha Tawde-Kelkar and Dr Christian Rechtenwald.   Mercy (00.53) Have a passion to serve people. Build your capacity, ofte...

Dr Christian Rechtenwald is a rural family medicine doctor form Germany and has been the Image Officer of ther European Young Family Doctors Movment for the past three years.  He talks about how he became a family doctor, what it has been like leading a rural family medicine practice in Germany, and how he has addressed challenges along the way.   Episode overview: 01.20  Christian's journey to be...

Major Dr Ashlesha Tawde-Kelkar is a rural doctor and army veteran from India.  During her uniformed service she was stationed between India and Pakistan and looked after the troops, as well as the rural and tribal populations in the area.  She currently provides care to tribal communities in the Western ghats of Maharashtra.   Episode Summary:  01.15  Working as an army doctor on the India-Pakista...

What is rural health policy? Policy is an ongoing interaction between interests, ideas and institutions. The policy process: Identifying the problem Agenda settting Decisions about prefered policy options Monitoring and evaluation https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/rural-health-policy https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/health-care-in-rural-areas/ https://academic.oup.com/heapol/article/31/9/12...

Aebhric O'Kelly  is a  Former US army Green Beret, a wilderness psychologist, a board certified critical care paramedic, and the dean emeritus of the College of Remote and Offshore Medicine .  He also hosts the CoROM podcast . Overview of episode:   00.45  Aebhric's professional background 02.35  Building international collaborations 05.30  Who works with CoROM? 08.45  CoROM and Malta - starting w...

Dr Gindrovel Dumitra  tells us about what the host organizing committee has planned for the upcomming EURIPA Rural Health Forum in Romania. Episode overview: 01.30  What is planned for the EURIPA Rural Health Forum? 04.30  What are the themes for the Forum? 05.30  Who is the Forum for? 08.50  How will the Forum help Romanian rural primary care?  13.25  Activities that are in the program of the For...

Pam Barrett has a background in social policy and is a co-founder of Be Buckfastleigh (Better Places), a community interest company set up to tackle health, social, and economic inequalities in Buckfastleigh and other small rural towns in Devon, UK. Overview of episode: 00.55  Pam talks about her professional background and how she became more involved with rural areas 04.00  The importance of pol...

Dr Mayara Floss is a family medicin doctor from Brazil, a PhD student , writer and advocate for rural and planetary health.  Episode overview: 00.45  Mayara's journey into rural health 07.40  Primary care in Brazil 08.50  Comparing rural and urban settings   13.00  Working in a favela during COVID19 14.20  Rural population and community care in Brazil 18.45  Community health workers in Brazil 20.1...