Profs Sarah & Roger Strasser are a trailblazing couple in rural health, rural health education and rural health research.

They share their experiences and perspectives on their rural health careers, involvement in medical education and rural health research.

Available 20th June 2025.

Prof Bill Ventres is a family physician, medical anthropologist and (recently retired) Distinguished Chair of Rural Family Medicine at the University of Arkansas in the USA. 

He shares the insights he has gained over his career on working with people at the margins, the storylines of family medicine and solutions for rural workforce development.

Available 10th June 2025.

Heather Sherriffs & Dan Martin are medical students on the ScotGEM training pathway.  

They share their experience of graduate entry medical training in Scotland, their placement on the Orkney Islands and how this is shaping their thoughts about their future careers.

Available 30th May 2025.

 Dr Iva Petricusic is a rural family doctor form Croatia. She is the vice chair of the young doctor committee of the Croatian Medical Chamber and a coordinating member of EUROPREV.  

She talks about her experience working as a rural family doctor in Slavonia and what has been done to improve recruitment and retention in rural and island communities.

Available 20th May 2025.

Prof Bruce Chater is a rural generalist, Head of the Mayne Academy of Rural and Remote Medicine Clinical Unit in Queensland, Australia, and the Chair of Rural WONCA.

He talks about the experience of working in the same town for 40 year, as well as his contribution to rural medicine in Australia and internationally through advocacy and development of rural medical education.

Available 10th May 2025.

Ashley Lambert is a medical student from the University of Swansea in Wales who is currently on the Rural Health in Medical Education track (RHiME).

She talks about her experience on rural placement and how this is shaping her views on her future career.

Available 30th April 2025.

 Dr Jane George is a health workforce consultant and academic from New Zealand, specialising in rural workforce and the Allied Health, Scientific, and Technical professions.  

She talks about her research into recruitment and retention of allied health professionals in rural areas.

Available 20th April 2025.

A/Prof Malin Fors is a psychotherapist, author and Associate Professor at the Arctic University in Norway.

She talks about her research into power dynamics and intersectionality in rural areas and we discuss the concept of “potato ethics” and “geographical narcissism”.

Available 10th April 2025.

Satu Pirskanen is a Project Manager at the Savonia University of Applied Sciences in Finland. 
She talks about rural health in Finland and the Attraction in Elderly Care Project.

Available 30th March 2025.

The team of the Virtual Health Hub in Saskatchewan, Canada: Dr Ivar Mendez, Dr John Michael Stevens, Dr Victoria Sparrow-Downes and Joey Deason. They tell us about how they are integrating virtual care and technology into rural health services in Canada.

Available 20th March 2025.

Professor Janessa Graves is the Director of the WWAMI Rural Health Research Centre at the University of Washington. She tells us about rural health research in the USA.

Available 10th March 2025.

Dr Bethan Setphens, a GP and Director of Community Learning and Dr Katie Webb, a psychologist, and a Professor of Medical Education at Cardiff University, tell us about Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships in Wales and the upcoming CLIC conference.

Available 28th February 2025.

Professor Karen Flegg is a rural general practitioner and academic from Australia. She is also the current president of WONCA, the world organization of family doctors. We talk about leadership and rural health.

Available 20th February 2025.

Dr Chris Rice is a qualified paramedic and Associate Head of Postgraduate Medicine at Edge Hill University in Lancashire. We discuss his doctoral thesis which explored the recruitment and retention of nurses staff across northern Scotland’s non doctor islands.

Available 10th February 2025.

Susanne Tegen is the CEO of the National Rural Health Alliance in Australia.

She shares her experiences of living in rural Australia, and talks about the work of NRHA and how they have become a leading voice in advocating for rural communities and rural health.

Available 30th January 2025.

Welcome to Season 3 of the Rural Road to Health!

Find out what we will be talking about this season.

Episodes will be released on the 10th, 20th and 30th of each month between January and August 2025.

Available 20th January 2025.