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

  • Rural behavioral health workforce: a state-level analysis Read more
  • The Rural and Urban Supply of Clinicians With a DEA Waiver to Prescribe Buprenorphine in 2022 Prior to the Elimination of the Waiver Requirement Read more
  • Federal and State Reimbursement for Youth Behavioral Health Services Read more


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Featured Presentations

  • Medicare Policy Impacts on Rural Mental Health Workforce Read more
  • Planning for the Future Rural Nursing Workforce Read more
  • Mental Health Prevalence, Providers, and Services Among Rural Youth 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 [...]

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