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Rural Matters

Podcast by Michael Levin-Epstein

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About Rural Matters

Rural Matters is a biweekly, 30-minute podcast about rural education, business, and health. The podcast's mission is to increase awareness, inform discussion, and expand the dialogue on the most important issues facing rural stakeholders every day. Guests on the podcast include rural education decision-makers, rural business owners and entrepreneurs, and rural health care representatives. The National Rural Education Association and the Center for Rural Affairs are marketing partners.

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Reversing Brain Drain in Rural Haiti

In this episode, Michael chats with Angela Galbreath, Director of Partnerships for uFondwa USA, and Lesly Joseph, Agronomist and Statistician specializing in biostatistics. They discuss what the University of Fondwa is and what makes it unique within Haiti and globally; what rural development actually looks like in Haiti; how Fondwa is helping to reverse the trend of brain drain; what draws professors, administrators, graduates to Fondwa; career and livelihood opportunities students at the University of Fondwa are pursuing after graduation; how the university helps students turn family land or local resources into viable economic opportunities; research and innovation coming out of the university that are helping rural communities; the role community, agriculture, and access to natural resources play in quality of life for university students and faculty; how the university is changing the meaning of a "good life" in rural Haiti; and much more. Take a virtual tour of uFondwa in Haiti at www.ufondwa.org/virtual-tour [https://ufondwa.org/virtual-tour].

29 Apr 2026 - 29 min
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Transforming Rural Health Policy

In this episode, Michael chats with Andrea Fox, Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News. Together, they discuss a recent study on how rural hospital at home programs have improved the patient experience—who conducted the study and its findings. Plus, they dive into what makes home health in rural areas unique compared to urban areas, policy implications of the study, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' new Office of Rural Health Transformation and the funding behind it, what this new federal focus on rural health could mean moving forward, and much more. Read "Acute care at home helps improve outcomes for rural patients" [https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/acute-care-home-helps-improve-outcomes-rural-patients] in Healthcare IT News. Read "Hospital-Level Care at Home for Adults Living in Rural Settings, A Randomized Clinical Trial" [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/] in JAMA Network Open.

14 Jan 2026 - 22 min
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