Benefits of membership in the SERA-19 Information Exchange Group include:

Insights into current research and extension efforts on rural health topics.

• The presentations shown here are just a sample of some of the on-going issues being explored by the analysts in the group.

Networking opportunities

• Vast potential for collaboration and interdisciplinary work among academicians, extension professionals, practitioners and policy-makers within the field of rural health

Career Progression

• Opportunities to present research results and have them critiqued by area experts.
• Interactions with state level rural health policy makers in the South
• Opportunities to serve on regional and national health-related committees.

Access to grant funding

• Opportunities to meet representatives from agencies and other institutions that provide funding for rural health research and extension projects
• Opportunities to develop regional grants to conduct rural health related research and develop innovative extension programs