Rural Health Journalism Workshop 2021

June 21, 2021 June 24, 2021 EDT

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Spotlight speaker: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack

America’s 60 million rural residents face distinct pandemic COVID-19 challenges – and those are just the latest in longstanding health challenges for rural populations.

Health journalists will find story after story during the virtual Rural Health Journalism Workshop June 21-23. The easy-access workshop will bring journalists together with health care and policy experts who focus on the medical needs, and how they differ, in rural areas.

You don’t have to live in a rural area to write great stories about what’s happening just beyond the city limits. Non-urban populations can play a larger-than-expected role in setting policy and legislation in many states and across the country. Leave with a better understanding of what’s happening – and will be happening – in rural regions to bring more perspective to your stories.

This special three-day, no-fee workshop will help you find and cover health stories in rural America. To attend and hear from experts, get answers to your questions and meet speakers in small breakout sessions, you just need to be an AHCJ member. And after the workshop, AHCJ members will have access to recordings.

Program

10:30 a.m.Welcome period begins 
10:50-11 a.m.Rural workshop welcome message, day’s agenda, intro first session 
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Defining rural and rural residents
-Steven Hirsch, public health analyst, Policy Research Division, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
-Trudy Lieberman, contributing editor, Center for Health Journalism Digital
-Janice Probst, Ph.D., director emerita, Rural and Minority Health Research Center, University of South Carolina
-Moderator: Melissa Patrick, reporter, Kentucky Health News
 
12:30-12:50 p.m.Breakout room with session speakers 
12:50-1 p.m.Break 
1-2:30 p.m.Data that can give context to rural health reporting
-Elizabeth Fite, reporter, Chattanooga Times Free Press
-Shawnda Schroeder, Ph.D., associate director of research and evaluation, Health Center for Rural Health, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
-Aallyah Wright, staff writer, Stateline
-Moderator: Erica Hensley, independent journalist
 
2:30-2:50 p.m.Breakout room with session speakers 
2:50-3 p.m.Break 
3-4:30 p.m.Rural COVID response: From hospitalizations to vaccinations
-Mark Holmes, Ph.D., director, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health
-Alan Morgan, chief executive officer, National Rural Health Association
-Mary Ellen Pratt, chief executive officer, St. James Parish Hospital
-Moderator: Lauren Weber, Midwest correspondent, Kaiser Health News
 
4:30-4:50 p.m.Breakout room with session speakers 
4:50-5 p.m.End of day with preview of tomorrow’s sessions
10:30-10:55 a.m.Welcome begins 
10:55 a.m.Welcome message, day’s agenda, intro first session 
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Stimulus package: How will it affect rural health?
-Carrie Cochran-McClain, vice president for government affairs and policy, National Rural Health Association
-Mandy Cohen, secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
-Jami Snyder, director, Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System; president, National Association of Medicaid Directors
-Moderator: Joanne Kenen, editor at large for health care, Politico
 
12:30-12:50 p.m.Breakout room with session speakers 
12:50-1 p.m.Break 
1-2:30 p.m.Barriers to health equity during a pandemic
-Bryan Hodge, D.O., Department of Community and Public Health interim chair, University of North Carolina Health Sciences for Mountain Area Health Education Center
-Derek Lewis, M.D., physician, Arkansas Primary Care Clinic
-Steve North, M.D., M.P.H., state medical director, Eleanor Health
-Loretta Wilson, chief executive officer, Hill Hospital of Sumter County
-Moderator: Melba Newsome, AHCJ core topic leader/health equity
 
2:30-2:50 p.m.Breakout room with session speakers 
2:50-3 p.m.Break 
3-4:30 p.m.Workforce in quantity and quality
-Steve Crane, M.D., family physician, WNC Family Medical Center
-Erin Fraher, Ph.D., M.P.P., director, Carolina Health Workforce Research Center, University of North Carolina
-Davis Patterson, Ph.D., director, WWAMI Rural Health Research, University of Washington School of Medicine
-Moderator: Rose Hoban, founder and editor, North Carolina News
 
4:30-4:50 p.m.Breakout room with session speakers 
4:50-5 p.m.End of day with preview of tomorrow’s sessions
10:30-10:55 a.m.Welcome begins 
10:55 a.m.Welcome message, day’s agenda, intro first session 
11 a.m.-noonSpotlight speaker: Growing rural health
-Tom Vilsack, U.S. secretary of agriculture
 
Noon-12:10 p.m.Break 
12:10-1:50 p.m.Aging in rural America post-pandemic
-Carrie Henning-Smith, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.W., deputy director, University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
-Trudy Lieberman, contributing editor, Center for Health Journalism Digital
-Carole Myers, Ph.D., N.P., professor, University of Tennessee College of Nursing, Knoxville
-Moderator: Liz Seegert, AHCJ core topic leader/aging
 
1:50-2:10 p.m.Breakout room with session speakers 
2:10-2:20 p.m.Break 
2:20-3:50 p.m.Added challenges in mental health
-Jacqueline Gray, Ph.D., associate director for indigenous programs, Center for Rural Health, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
-Tiffany Haynes, Ph.D., co-director, Translational Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
-Moderator: Katti Gray, AHCJ core topic leader/mental health
 
3:50-4:10 p.m.Breakout room with session speakers 
4:10-4:20 p.m.End of day and thank you for participating

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