The Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center (GRHIC) at Mercer University School of Medicine has launched season one of Rural Georgia Voices. This new podcast explores the crucial role health care plays across the state’s rural regions, where access, resources and workforce shortages present ongoing challenges.
Through firsthand perspectives and storytelling, Rural Georgia Voices aims to broaden public understanding of rural health care and inspire meaningful dialogue and action. The podcast amplifies the work of those whose efforts often go unrecognized but are essential to the health and vitality of communities across rural Georgia.
This season, GRHIC Executive Director Glenda Grant hosts conversations with rural physicians, hospital administrators, pharmacists and other professionals working on the front lines of rural health.
New episodes will be released weekly through Dec. 17 and are available on the GRHIC website, Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Podcasts.
The debut episode, “Perspectives from a Rural Physician,” features School of Medicine Dean Jean R. Sumner, M.D., MACP.
Season one episodes now available include:
- “What’s Really Behind the Cost of Your Prescriptions”
- “Caring for Rural Kids: The Work, the Wins and the Realities”
- “Community, Resilience and Hope: The Impact of Rural Hospitals”
- “Elder Care in Rural Georgia”
Each episode features insightful conversations with experts and leaders from various sectors of rural health care. The interconnectedness of community members, physicians and health care providers, educators, and policymakers who collaborate to address the unique challenges of rural Georgia will be explored.
Rural Georgia Voices is recorded on Mercer University’s Macon campus. Evey Wilson Wetherbee, Mercer associate professor of practice in journalism, is the producer. Listen and follow at garuralhealth.link/RuralGeorgiaVoices.
