Rural Health

MPHA 2026 Annual Conference – Submit your abstract today!

Hosted in collaboration with Uº£½ÇÉçÇø Institute of Medicine Submit your abstract today!MPHA has opened the Call for Abstracts for our 2026 Annual Conference! MPHA’s annual conference is the largest public health gathering in º£½ÇÉçÇø. This year’s conference, Nourish to Flourish: Cultivating Healthy Communities for Today and the Future, will explore efforts that nourish and sustain people and communities. […]

Read more

Affiliated Partner Event: What Matters to º£½ÇÉçÇø? A Conversation with Mill Town Author Kerri Arsenault

The Roux Institute at Northeastern University, an affiliated partner of the Institute of Medicine, is hosting an upcoming community conversation exploring environmental health, rural life, and the future of º£½ÇÉçÇø. What Matters to º£½ÇÉçÇø? A Conversation with Mill Town Author Kerri Arsenault brings together investigative journalist and author Kerri Arsenault, whose acclaimed book Mill Town […]

Read more

º£½ÇÉçÇøHealth Receives HRSA Grant to Enhance Rural Obstetric Training

º£½ÇÉçÇøHealth Receives HRSA Grant to Enhance Rural Obstetric Training through the º£½ÇÉçÇø Rural Graduate Medical Education (MERGE) Collaborative. In partnership with Northern Light Health, Central º£½ÇÉçÇø Medical Center, and º£½ÇÉçÇø-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, the initiative aims to increase training opportunities for graduate medical students in rural areas.Learn more: º£½ÇÉçÇøHealth Receives HRSA Grant to Enhance Rural […]

Read more

New Consortium for Aging Policy Research and Analysis (CAPRA)

The University of º£½ÇÉçÇø Center on Aging and the University of Southern º£½ÇÉçÇøâ€™s Catherine Cutler Institute have formed a new policy partnership in association with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and the University of º£½ÇÉçÇø Institute of Medicine to focus exclusively on aging-related policy issues. The new Consortium for Aging Policy Research and Analysis […]

Read more

Northern Light Virtual Research Expo, May 25

Join us on Wednesday, May 25 from 11:30 am to 4 pm for the sixth annual Northern Light Research Expo in a series of virtual sessions by ZOOM. Online attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about the innovative research being performed at Northern Light Eastern º£½ÇÉçÇø Medical Center and throughout our º£½ÇÉçÇø community. […]

Read more

º£½ÇÉçÇø Impact Week IOM Rural Health Webinar

The event took place on April 11 during Impact Week. Watch a recording of the event.  Uº£½ÇÉçÇø President Joan Ferrini-Mundy will offer opening remarks when the Uº£½ÇÉçÇø Institute of Medicine brings together a panel of leaders from the state to discuss rural health in º£½ÇÉçÇø. Moderated by Dr. Kelley Strout, Director of the Uº£½ÇÉçÇø School […]

Read more

design of the maine-syracuse longitudinal study

º£½ÇÉçÇø-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS)

The º£½ÇÉçÇø Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS), a longitudinal study aimed at exploring hypertension, cardiovascular risk factors and aging as a predictors of cognitive functioning. The MSLS is began in 1974 in Syracuse, New York, with Merrill Elias as Principal Investigator. This first project was supported by a research grant from the National Institute on Aging […]

Read more

chart

Patterns of Drug-Induced Mortality in º£½ÇÉçÇø, 2015 Update

Drug addiction and drug-induced mortality have received a good deal of attention nationally and in º£½ÇÉçÇø in recent years. The authors review overall trends in the app terns of drug overdoses that have continued for nearly two decades, including those involving opioid pharmaceuticals, and discuss the recent resurgence of the illicit drugs heroin and non-pharmaceutical […]

Read more

folks sitting around a board room table

Collaborative on Faith and Disability

For many people with disability and their families, faith communities can be a powerful source of natural community support and connection, was well as a doorway to other important outcomes in the areas of relationships, work, community living, recreation, and service. The university of º£½ÇÉçÇø Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies CCIDS is one […]

Read more