About Us

The WWAMI Rural Health Research Center (RHRC) is one of seven rural health research centers funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) to perform policy-oriented research on issues related to rural health care.

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Featured Research

  • Palliative Care Challenges and Solutions in Rural U.S. Communities Read more
  • Expanding the opioid use disorder medication treatment workforce in rural communities through the RCORP initiative Read more
  • Estimated Impacts of Multiple Payment Policies on Rural-Serving Home Health Agencies Read more


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Featured Presentations

  • Mapping Priorities for Rural Youth Substance Use Prevention Read more
  • Healthcare utilization and transportation burden for mood disorders and opioid use disorder treatment Read more
  • State of the State: Rural Health and Healthcare in Washington State Read more


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News

Davis Patterson Awarded Research & Scholarship Excellence Award

Congratulations to the WWAMI RHRC’s own, Davis Patterson, who has been awarded the 2024 Research [...]

The Association of Rurality and Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis

A new study by the WWAMI Rural Health Research Center, led by David Evans, MD, [...]

Geographic Access to Health Care for Rural Medicare Beneficiaries: An Update and National Look

Rural residents travel farther for care and often have more problems accessing care, including medical [...]

Allison Cole Awarded $2.9 Million NIH Grant

The WWAMI RHRC congratulates our colleague, Allison Cole, MD, MPH, and her team for their [...]

Increase in Waivered Clinicians Has Not Eliminated Rural/Urban Opioid Treatment Disparities

A new WWAMI RHRC study finds that the number of DEA-waivered clinicians more than doubled [...]

WWAMI RHRC Policy Brief Reports Shrinking Supply of General Surgeons in Rural America

The Distribution of the General Surgery Workforce in Rural and Urban America in 2019  We [...]

Articles Published on Health Equity in Primary Care Health Professional Education

RHRC investigators Andrilla, Evans, and Patterson published multiple articles in a special issue of the [...]

Study to Look at PNWU Grads and Clinical Practice Choices

            The WWAMI Rural Health Research Center was recently awarded [...]

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