What About Rural Health?™

What About Rural Health?™

Chinasa Imo

Episodes 31
Avg. Duration 38m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (1)
Since Jul 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Weekly
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Consistency
63%
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About This Podcast

From the Margins: Let’s Create the Narrative Together What About Rural Health?™ is a podcast series dedicated to bringing focused discussions on the unique challenges, lived experiences, opportunities, and innovations within rural healthcare—both locally and globally. Our mission is to bring rural health to the forefront of the global health conversation, ensuring these stories are not just heard, but impossible to ignore. Hosted by Chinasa U Imo, a Global Health Policy Strategist, and produced by WARH?™ Studios, this immersive series blends first-hand accounts, expert insights, policy conversations, and cutting-edge research to elevate rural health in the global discourse. Each episode features voices from the frontlines—community members, healthcare professionals, researchers, and policymakers—unpacking the structural gaps and innovative solutions shaping access to care in underserved communities. From deep-dive interviews to field-based storytelling, we bring rural health out of the margins and into focus—sparking dialogue, inspiring action, and influencing decisions and policies that advance equity. Whether you're a health professional, a student, a researcher, a policymaker, an advocate, or a curious listener, What About Rural Health?™ invites you to rethink global health through a rural lens—and join the movement to make rural health impossible to ignore.

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Reconnecting to the Source (B) | Dr. Moshood Olanrewaju | What About Rural Health

Jun 01, 2026 43m

Communities play a huge part in the lives of everyone, especially rural dwellers. Can community structures provide an out-of-the-box look at rural healthcare? Dr Moshood Olanrewaju, President of the…

Reconnecting to the Source (A) | Dr. Moshood Olanrewaju | What About Rural Health

Jun 01, 2026 33m

Communities play a huge part in the life of everyone, especially rural dwellers. Can community structures provide an out-of-the-box look to rural healthcare? Dr Moshood Olanrewaju, President of the…

Making Private Practice Work for Rural Health (B) | Dr. Rishin Shah | What About Rural Health

May 18, 2026 32m

Your healthcare costs are rising, and budget cuts are biting. Can the private practice model provide a safe landing for rural America?Dr Rishin Shah, a board-certified cardiologist and vascular…

Making Private Practice Work for Rural Health (A) | Dr. Rishin Shah | What About Rural Health

May 18, 2026 37m

Your healthcare costs are rising, and budget cuts are biting. Can the private practice model provide a safe landing for rural America?Dr Rishin Shah, a board-certified cardiologist and vascular…

Making Rural America Healthy (B) | Dr Marschall Runge | What About Rural Health

May 03, 2026 35m

Rural America is facing a growing crisis of healthcare access, from trained professionals, to financing, technological innovations to simplifying Healthcare complexities. Our guest, Marschall S.…

Making Rural America Healthy (A) | Dr Marschall Runge | What About Rural Health

May 03, 2026 46m

Rural America is facing a growing crisis of healthcare access, from trained professionals, to financing, technological innovations to simplifying Healthcare complexities. Our guest, Marschall S.…

When Distance Becomes the Diagnosis: Financing Lung Cancer in Rural Communities| Eugene Manley

Apr 20, 2026 48m

Why does lung cancer receive disproportionately lower funding for research and treatment compared to every other form of cancer, despite being the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S.? Dr.…

Working Through Pain (B) | David Jeter

Apr 03, 2026 27m

In the world of physical therapy, the rural communities are needier due to increased manual labour. How are rural dwellers able to survive the structure, barriers, policy hindering access to much…

Working Through Pain (A) | David Jeter

Apr 03, 2026 33m

In the world of physical therapy, rural communities are in greater need due to increased manual labour. How are rural dwellers able to survive the structural barriers and policies hindering access to…

Innovating Under Pressure (B)| LuAnn Kimker

Mar 17, 2026 26m

Part B of the conversation:Nearly 66 million people live in rural America and more than half of rural hospitals are operating in the red. Still, the rural health system is being threatened by more…

Innovating Under Pressure (A) | LuAnn Kimker

Mar 17, 2026 33m

Nearly 66 million people live in rural America and more than half of rural hospitals are operating in the red. Still the rural health system is being threatened by more health cuts. How are rural…

When Health Systems Fail (B) | Peter Kowey

Mar 05, 2026 43m

In episode (B) of When Health Systems Fail, world-renowned cardiologist, Dr Peter Kowey, discusses the importance of individualized care in modern medicine. He explains how clinicians can move beyond…

When Health Systems Fail (A) | Dr Peter Kowey

Mar 05, 2026 45m

In this episode (A) of Rethinking Rural Health Financing, world-renowned cardiologist, Dr Peter Kowey, explains the bureaucracy involved in achieving positive health system outcomes, especially with…

When Health Systems Fail with Dr Peter Kowey

Mar 03, 2026 1h 28m

In this episode of Rethinking Rural Health Financing, world-renowned cardiologist, Dr Peter Kowey, explains the bureaucracy involved in achieving positive health system outcomes, especially with…

Excluded Voices (B): Financing Care for Deaf and Disabled Communities in Rural Health Systems | Grace Lester

Feb 20, 2026 34m Transcript

A man sits in jail for murder because of a deaf misinterpretation. Listen to the story.#Deaf #story #ruralhealth #policyIn part B of the conversation, Grace Lester talks about the nature of…

Excluded Voices (A): Financing Care for Deaf and Disabled Communities in Rural Health Systems | Grace Lester

Feb 20, 2026 46m Transcript

How do members of the deaf and disabled community navigate the health system in rural areas and structures? #healthequity #healthcare #deafcommunity #ruralhealth Grace Lester, a clinician and…

Bridging the Gap Why Rural Health Needs Sustainable Funding with Tariah Adams - B

Feb 11, 2026 33m

What does sustainable rural health financing look like in practice?In Part B of Bridging the Gap, we move from diagnosis to solutions. From a community in Kebbi State, Nigeria — where women created a…

Bridging the Gap: Why Rural Health Needs Sustainable Funding with Tariah Adams (Part A)

Feb 11, 2026 39m

In this first episode of Rethinking Rural Health Financing, Bridging the Gap: Why Rural Health Needs Sustainable Funding, Chinasa speaks with Tariah Adams to unpack the structural reasons rural…

Rethinking Rural Health Financing: Investment Opportunities and Challenges (Bonus Episode)

Jan 31, 2026 11m

Why does rural health remain underfunded - even when everyone agrees it matters? In this opening monologue of Rethinking Rural Health Financing, Chinasa Imo sets the stage for a bold new podcast…

Resettled and Forgotten (Part 2) with Dr Jessica Darrow

Jan 07, 2026 33m

In Part Two of Resettled and Forgotten, Dr. Jessica Darrow unpacks what actually exists behind refugee and immigrant resettlement in the United States—and where the system still falls short.She…

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What About Rural Health?™ has published 31 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Medicine.

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