What About Rural Health?™

Chinasa Imo

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.

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

    May 3

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

    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. Runge, M.D., PhD, is the executive vice president for Medical Affairs at the University of Michigan, dean of the Medical School, and CEO of Michigan Medicine. He opens up the inner workings of the medical world. How AI can optimise access to care, data safety, basic health care insurance and much more is discussed in this episode.  In his book, "The Great Healthcare Disruption," he offers an inside look at how healthcare is rapidly evolving—and what that means for the future of medicine. In this book, he explores:  How Big Tech companies like Amazon and Google are beginning to reshape the patient experience The role of AI and new medical breakthroughs in changing how we diagnose, treat, and manage diseases The trade-offs of innovation—how progress can improve care while also putting pressure on existing health systems Why traditional healthcare institutions must adapt to stay relevant in a fast-changing, tech-driven world The ongoing challenges around access, equity, and affordability—and what needs to change to make healthcare work for everyone Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Healthcare-Disruption-American-Medicine/dp/B0F1F35PC5 #whataboutruralhealth #podcast #healthequity #ruralhealth #interview #healthcare #healthfinancing #podmatch Want to be a guest on What About Rural Health?™? Send Chinasa Imo a message on PodMatch, here: https://podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/chinasaimo Email us: info@whataboutruralhealth.comVisit our website: What About Rural Health? Subscribe, share your thoughts, and stay connected. Follow us on all platforms: facebook.com/whataboutruralhealthx.com/Ruralist_Healthwww.instagram.com/whataboutruralhealthwww.youtube.com/@WhatAboutRuralHealthwww.tiktok.com/@whataboutruralhealth1LinkedIn.com/whataboutruralhealth

    35 min
  2. Making Rural America Healthy (A) | Dr Marschall Runge | What About Rural Health

    May 3

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

    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. Runge, M.D., Ph.D., is the executive vice president for Medical Affairs at the University of Michigan, dean of the Medical School, and CEO of Michigan Medicine. He opens up the inner workings of the medical world. How AI can optimise access to care, data safety, basic health care insurance and much more is discussed in this episode.  In his book, "The Great Healthcare Disruption," he offers an inside look at how healthcare is rapidly evolving—and what that means for the future of medicine. In this book, he explores:  How Big Tech companies like Amazon and Google are beginning to reshape the patient experience The role of AI and new medical breakthroughs in changing how we diagnose, treat, and manage diseases The trade-offs of innovation—how progress can improve care while also putting pressure on existing health systems Why traditional healthcare institutions must adapt to stay relevant in a fast-changing, tech-driven world The ongoing challenges around access, equity, and affordability—and what needs to change to make healthcare work for everyone Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Healthcare-Disruption-American-Medicine/dp/B0F1F35PC5 #whataboutruralhealth #podcast #healthequity #ruralhealth #interview #healthcare #healthfinancing #podmatch Want to be a guest on What About Rural Health?™? Send Chinasa Imo a message on PodMatch, here: https://podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/chinasaimo Email us: info@whataboutruralhealth.comVisit our website: What About Rural Health? Subscribe, share your thoughts, and stay connected. Follow us on all platforms: facebook.com/whataboutruralhealthx.com/Ruralist_Healthwww.instagram.com/whataboutruralhealthwww.youtube.com/@WhatAboutRuralHealthwww.tiktok.com/@whataboutruralhealth1LinkedIn.com/whataboutruralhealth

    46 min

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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.