The SRDC periodically sponsors or facilitates webinars and trainings. All trainings and webinars are scheduled for Central Time.
Community Development for Extension Professionals:
Frameworks, Case Studies, and Where to Get Started
April 11, 2024
The webinar focuses on essential community development frameworks, language, and case studies. This session features a brief presentation from community resource development (CRD) Extension leaders from around the country, small group discussions to better understand what this work looks like regionally and nationally in practice, and up-coming opportunities to continue to explore CRD work in local communities that support community resilience and capacity building.
Extension CRED Impact Indicators - Review, Refresh, Revise
May 2, 2024
The webinar provides context and history to the Extension Community, Resource, and Economic Development (CRED) Impact indicators, summarizes the survey results, and shares the plan for developing new and more relevant indicators.
The Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population and Aging (INRPHA) Webinar Series
INRPHA webinars are open to all participants. Mississippi State University is an equal opportunity institution. To request an accommodation or for accessibility inquiries, please contact Carmen Kelly at carmen.kelly@msstate.edu.
Publishing on Rural Population Health and Aging: Insights and Tips from Journal Editors
October 3, 2025
Presenters:
- Elizabeth Crouch (Univ. of South Carolina), Journal of Rural Mental Health
- Ty Borders (Texas Christian Univ.), Journal of Rural Health
- Joseph Gaugler (Univ. of Minnesota), The Gerontologist
- Leif Jensen (Pennsylvania State Univ.), Rural Sociology
Moderator: John Green from the Southern Rural Development Center and editor of the Journal for Rural Social Sciences.
This webinar is being offered by the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (NIA grant 1R24AG089064-01).
https://www.sph.umn.edu/research/projects/inrpha/
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Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA)
INRPHA is funded by NIA grant 1R24AG089064 and led by Carrie Henning-Smith (University of Minnesota), Leif Jensen (Penn State), Shannon Monnat (Syracuse University), John Green (Southern Rural Development Center/Mississippi State University), and Lori Hunter (University of Colorado Boulder).
Associations between Behavior-Opportunity Gaps and Dementia Risk: Leveraging Data from a Large Longitudinal Study of Aging
May 9, 2025
Presenter: Olivia E. Atherton, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
This webinar is being offered by the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (NIA grant 1R24AG089064-01).
https://www.sph.umn.edu/research/projects/inrpha/
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Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA)
INRPHA is funded by NIA grant 1R24AG089064 and led by Carrie Henning-Smith (University of Minnesota), Leif Jensen (Penn State), Shannon Monnat (Syracuse University), John Green (Southern Rural Development Center/Mississippi State University), and Lori Hunter (University of Colorado Boulder).
An Introduction to the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS): Resources for Understanding Older Adult Rural Health
January 31, 2025
Presenters:
Jennifer Schrack, PhD, NHATS MPI
Maureen Skehan, MSPH, NHATS Senior Research Associate
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
NHATS is funded by a cooperative agreement with the NIA: U01AG032947.
This webinar is being offered by the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (NIA grant 1R24AG089064-01).
https://www.sph.umn.edu/research/projects/inrpha/
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Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA)
INRPHA is funded by NIA grant 1R24AG089064 and led by Carrie Henning-Smith (University of Minnesota), Leif Jensen (Penn State), Shannon Monnat (Syracuse University), John Green (Southern Rural Development Center/Mississippi State University), and Lori Hunter (University of Colorado Boulder).
Despair and Aging in Southern Appalachia: The Great Smoky Mountains Study
The Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA) will host a virtual seminar titled “Despair and Aging in Southern Appalachia: The Great Smoky Mountains Study”.
Friday, February 13, 2026
10:00 a.m. Pacific | 11:00 a.m. Mountain | 12:00 noon Central | 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
The presentation will be delivered by William E. Copeland, Professor of Psychiatry, and Thomas M. Achenbach, Chair of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Vermont. Dr. Copeland is widely recognized for his research on mental health across the life course, with a particular focus on long-term population-based studies. His work is supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He also serves as Vice President and Treasurer of the nonprofit Research Center for Children, Youth and Families, which develops and distributes mental health measurement tools.
This seminar will draw on findings from the Great Smoky Mountains Study to explore the intersections of despair, mental health, and aging in Southern Appalachia—offering important insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working to improve population health in rural communities.
The event is hosted by the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA), which is funded by the National Institute on Aging (Grant 1R24AG089064) and led by Carrie Henning-Smith (University of Minnesota), Leif Jensen (Penn State), Shannon Monnat (Syracuse University), John Green (Southern Rural Development Center/Mississippi State University), and Lori Hunter (University of Colorado Boulder).