Season 2 Wrap Up

Highlights from the second season of the Rural Road to Health Podcast. Learn what is planned for season 3.

Available 10th December 2024.

Tony Joy is the founder of Durian, an NGO focused on empowering rural women to become self-sufficient by providing them with the knowledge and skills needed to transform their local waste into a means of livelihood.

Available 20th November 2024.

Sadie Lavelle Cafferkey is a registered nurse working on in the Republic of Ireland. She is currently doing a PhD with Trinity College Dublin.  Her project is looking at developing integrated nurse led addiction services for rural communities.

Available 10th November 2024.

Dr Juan Barranco is a rural family doctor in Andalucía, Spain. He will talk about rural medicine in Spain, the rural section in SemFYC and the upcoming rural forum.

Available 30th October 2024.

Prof. Jean Ross is a professor of nursing at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand.  She is a member of the Global Rural Nursing Exchange Network leadership team.

She talks about rural nursing in New Zealand and about the development of GRNEN.

Available 20th October 2024.

Gréanne Leeftink is an assistant professor within the department Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems, in the CHOIR research centre at the University of Twente.  Her research focus is on healthcare process optimization, using Operations Management/Operations Research techniques.

We explore how mathematical models can be used in rural healthcare settings.

Available 10th October 2024.

Cristobal Escalona is director at Balloon Lab at Balloon Latam, a social enterprise supporting rural innovation and sustainable development in rural areas of Chile.

We talk about how social entrepreneurship can build social capital, and how they have found a way to measure intangible assets in the community by developing a community resilience index.

Available 20th September 2024.

Dr Anette Fosse is a rural GP and the director of the Norwegian Centre for Rural Medicine. We talk about rural primary care in Norway, research on rural medical education and rural locums.

Available 10th September 2024.

Dr Rebecca Orr is an academic GP from Northern Ireland who focuses on farmers’ health. She is also the Chair of the Agri Rural Health Forum in Northern Ireland.

We talk about farmers’ health and the research that she has been doing in collaboration with farmers on health behaviours and cardiometabolic disease.

Available 30th August 2024.

Melanie Costas is the founder and CEO of Rural Mental Health Matters, a social enterprise focused on tackling mental and physical health inequality in rural England and Wales. We talk about the challenges faced by rural communities when it comes to mental health and disability and possible solutions for addressing them.

Available 20th August 2024.