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.
In brief: Serah Makka, Executive Director for Africa at The ONE Campaign, tells What About Rural Health host Chinasa Imo that individuals pay for much of Africa’s healthcare. She put
Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Start with Part 1: Rural Health Financing Through Strong National Health Systems. How can countries move beyond donor dependency to build sustainable health systems
Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Continue with Part 2: Rural Health Financing Through Strong National Health Systems. How can countries move beyond donor dependency to build sustainable health systems
In this episode of What About Rural Health, we speak with Cameron Sabet about rural health financing, the power of health data, and how better information can shape stronger rural
Part A of a two-part conversation. Continue with Part B: Rural Health and the EECP Therapy Access crisis. When Jack Clifford was told he needed open-heart surgery after being diagnosed
Part B of a two-part conversation. Start with Part A: Who Pays for Rural Health. In this episode of Rethinking Rural Health Financing, we confront a difficult but necessary question:
Part A of a two-part conversation. Continue with Part B: Who Pays for Rural Health. In this episode of Rethinking Rural Health Financing, we confront a difficult but necessary question:
Part B of a two-part conversation. Start with Part A: Reconnecting to the Source. Communities play a huge part in the lives of everyone, especially rural dwellers. Can community structures
Part A of a two-part conversation. Continue with Part B: Reconnecting to the Source. Communities play a huge part in the life of everyone, especially rural dwellers. Can community structures
Part B of a two-part conversation. Start with Part A: Making Private Practice Work for Rural Health. Your healthcare costs are rising, and budget cuts are biting. Can the private
Part B of a two-part conversation. Start with Part A: Making Rural America Healthy. Rural America is facing a growing crisis of healthcare access, from trained professionals, to financing, technological
Why does lung cancer receive disproportionately lower funding for research and treatment compared to every other form of cancer, despite being the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S.?
Part B of a two-part conversation. Start with Part A: Working Through Pain. In the world of physical therapy, the rural communities are needier due to increased manual labour. How
Part A of a two-part conversation. Continue with Part B: Working Through Pain. In the world of physical therapy, rural communities are in greater need due to increased manual labour.
Part B of a two-part conversation. Start with Part A: Innovating Under Pressure. Part B of the conversation:Nearly 66 million people live in rural America and more than half of
Part A of a two-part conversation. Continue with Part B: Innovating Under Pressure. Nearly 66 million people live in rural America and more than half of rural hospitals are operating
Part B of a two-part conversation. Start with Part A: Excluded Voices: Financing Care for Deaf and Disabled Communities in Rural Health Systems. A man sits in jail for murder
Part A of a two-part conversation. Continue with Part B: Excluded Voices: Financing Care for Deaf and Disabled Communities in Rural Health Systems. How do members of the deaf and
Part B of a two-part conversation. Start with Part A: Bridging the Gap: Why Rural Health Needs Sustainable Funding with Tariah Adams. What does sustainable rural health financing look like
Part A of a two-part conversation. Continue with Part B: Bridging the Gap Why Rural Health Needs Sustainable Funding with Tariah Adams. In this first episode of Rethinking Rural Health
Why does rural health remain underfunded – even when everyone agrees it matters? In this opening monologue of Rethinking Rural Health Financing, Chinasa Imo sets the stage for a bold
Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Start with Part 1: Resettled and Forgotten. In Part Two of Resettled and Forgotten, Dr. Jessica Darrow unpacks what actually exists behind refugee and
In this episode of What About Rural Health, we sit down with Dr. Jessica Darrow, Associate Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy,
Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Continue with Part 2: Resettled and Forgotten. What happens after people flee violence, climate disasters, and instability — and where do they go when
In this thought-provoking episode of What About Rural Health?, host Chinasa Imo sits with Dr. Titilayo Ogumbambi, a public health expert whose work blends psychology, policy, and community development to
Nigerian Health Promotion: Challenges of Delivering Care in Rural Areas — A Conversation with Dr. Zainab Dahiru In this episode of What About Rural Health?, host Chinasa Imo speaks with
In this episode, we sit with Peterson Wachira, a seasoned Clinical Officer, Infectious Disease Expert, and National Chairperson of the Kenya Union of Clinical Officers (KUCO) — and a recipient
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