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.
Featured Research
- Access to and Provision of Child and Youth Behavioral Health Services in the Rural and Urban U.S. Read more
- The Distribution of the Youth Behavioral Health Workforce in Rural and Urban America in 2025 Read more
- Comparing the Care, Distance Traveled and Health Workforce Clinician Mix for Rural and Urban Commercially Insured Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Read more
Featured Presentations
News
Davis Patterson Awarded Research & Scholarship Excellence Award
Congratulations to the WWAMI RHRC’s own, Davis Patterson, who has been awarded the 2024 Research [...]
Sep
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, [...]
Oct
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 [...]
Sep
Allison Cole Awarded $2.9 Million NIH Grant
The WWAMI RHRC congratulates our colleague, Allison Cole, MD, MPH, and her team for their [...]
Apr
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 [...]
Mar
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 [...]
Mar
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 [...]
Dec
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