Rural Health Research Centers
The Rural Health Research Centers are designed to help policy makers better understand the problems that rural communities face in assuring access to health care for their residents. The Centers' research findings inform a wide audience of national, state, and local decision-makers concerned with rural health.
Directories
Directory of Rural Health Contacts: Rural Research Centers
Lists contact information for research centers that engage in rural health research.
Rural Health Research Gateway
Provides access to all of the research and findings of the Office of Rural Health Policy's Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Centers. Covers current and completed research projects and publications resulting from those projects. Includes information about the research centers and individual researchers.
Organizations
Maine Rural Health Research Center (MRHC)
Phone: 207.780.4430
Email: muskieweb@usm.maine.edu
One of six Rural Health Research Centers funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Works to inform health care policymaking and the delivery of rural health services, focusing on rural health care financing and system reform, rural long term care, and rural mental health.
Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research
Phone: 402.559.5260
Conducts research and analysis related to improving health care delivery in rural areas on a national basis. Focuses on special populations among rural residents, including the elderly, children, minorities, mentally ill, under and uninsured, and new immigrants whose needs for assistance are unique.
NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
Phone: 773.256.6000
Focuses on changes in Medicare payments to rural providers, access to care for rural residents, and rural public health infrastructure.
North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
Phone: 919.966.5541
One of six Rural Health Research Centers funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Works to identify rural health problems through policy-relevant analyses, geographic and graphical presentation of data, and information dissemination. Focuses on rural hospitals and healthcare delivery organizations and access.
RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Phone: 402.559.5260
Email: healthpolicy@unmc.edu
Focuses on rural health care financing/system reform, rural systems building, and meeting the health care needs of special rural populations.
South Carolina Rural Health Research Center (SCRHRC)
Phone: 803.251.6317
One of six Rural Health Research Centers funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Focuses on investigating persistent inequities in health status within the population of the rural U.S., with an emphasis on inequities stemming from socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, and access to healthcare services.
Southwest Rural Health Research Center (SRHRC)
Conducts and disseminates policy-relevant research on critical rural health issues, with a focus on: meeting and understanding the needs of rural underserved and special populations; eliminate or reduce health disparities; and maintain and build rural health systems.
University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Phone: 612.624.6151
Email: ihsr@umn.edu
Conducts research and disseminates information, with primary areas of research including: rural health care financing, rural systems building, and outcomes and delivery of care in rural areas.
Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center (UMRHRC)
Phone: 612.624.6151
One of six Rural Health Research Centers funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Undertakes national projects focusing on quality of rural health care and other rural health issues by combining expertise with the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center and the University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health.
West Virginia Rural Health Research Center (WVRHRC)
Phone: 304.347.1382
Email: mhendryx@hsc.wvu.edu
One of six Rural Health Research Centers funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Conducts policy-relevant research on environmental health in rural populations and other topics.
WICHE Center for Rural Mental Health Research
Phone: 303.541.0250
Email: jshaw@wiche.edu
Develops and evaluates strategies to promote the adoption of evidence-based mental health care to rural residents with depression and mental illness.
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center (WWAMI RHRC)
Phone: 206.685.0402
Email: rhrc@fammed.washington.edu
One of six Rural Health Research Centers funded by the Office of Rural Health Policy. Focuses on training and supply of rural health care providers, availability and quality of care for rural women and children, and access to high-quality care for vulnerable and minority rural populations. Based in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
