Rural Food Access

Panel discussion on career transitions within the rural food access and health space 
Webinar Date: November 12, 2025

Diet Quality in Rural Compared to Nonrural U.S. Adults: A Systematic Review
Webinar Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Objectively and Subjectively Measured Environmental Support for Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and Breastfeeding in Rural United States: A Scoping Review to Inform Public Health Surveillance
Webinar Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

The Rural Public Library Workforce as a Community Health Partner: Evidence from a National Survey (Lenstra)
Webinar Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Cooperative Purchasing in Grocery: A Strategy for Boosting Business Viability and Food Access in Rural Areas (Blair)
Webinar Date: Thursday, October 17, 2024

"Diapers or dinner? Food insecurity and unmet needs for diapers" (Belarmino)
Webinar Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024

Southern Indiana Farm to Health: Experiments in community-designed and -driven Food Is Medicine (Valliant)
Webinar Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024

Expert panel on recruiting research participants from rural communities (Seguin-Fowler & Holston)
Webinar Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024

Experiences of low-income dollar store shoppers and potential insights for rural communities (Reimold)
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024

An introduction to the Farm Bill (Cates)
Webinar Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023

Application of agent-based modeling for research related to rural food access: a workshop (Calancie)
Webinar Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023

Using the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) framework to advance the science and practice of healthy food retail (Houghtaling)
Webinar Date: Thursday, February 16, 2023

Adaptation of WISE for rural home visiting: an implementation science example (Swindle)
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023

Updates from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health: how does the national strategy relate to rural food access? (Bleich)
Webinar Date: Thursday, December 15, 2022

Can technology-based behavioral strategies be an avenue for lasting impact for rural communities? Findings from an online grocery shopping intervention (Gillespie)
Webinar Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022

Nutritional quality of menus provided through the Emergency Meals to You program (Harnack)
Webinar Date: Thursday, September 15, 2022

School meals and COVID-19 in rural communities (Soldavini & Baker)
Webinar Date: Thursday, May 19, 2022

Building partnerships with rural grocery store owners: a case study on improving the WIC shopping experience (La Lone)
Webinar Date: Thursday, March 17, 2022

Policy, Systems, and Environment (PSE) approaches to address food access in low-income, rural communities (Holston)
Webinar Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022

Household Structure and Risk of Food Insecurity: Implications for Children and Older Adults (Garner)
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 20, 2022

Roundtable Discussion: Current Research, Methods, Collaboration
Webinar Date: Thursday, October 21, 2021

The Role of Libraries in Improving Rural Food Access and Food Security
Webinar Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021

Pass the Peas, Please! Impacting Preschoolers Preference & Consumption for Available Vegetables (Jocelyn Dixon)
Webinar Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Creciendo en Salud: Systems Change to Support Healthy Eating among Latino Youth and their Families in Benton County, Oregon (Patton-López)
Webinar Date: Thursday, April 15, 2021

Rural Food Access Student Spotlight Series
Webinar Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021

Chatham Food Hub: Creating Food Access and Economic Opportunity in a Pandemic (Wertman)
Webinar Date: Thursday, February 18, 2021

WIC Online Grocery Ordering: Opportunities and Potential Issues to Consider for Rural Communities (Anderson-Steeves)
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021

Remote/Virtual/Hybrid Data Collection for Rural Communities and COVID-19 Times: Balancing Reality, Rigor, and Participant Perspectives (Seguin-Fowler)
Webinar Date: Thursday, December 17, 2020

Connecting Food, Farms and Nutrition: A text-message diabetes prevention program in rural North Carolina (Hege)
Webinar Date: Thursday, August 20, 2020

Health Care-Directed Screening Initiatives and Interventions for Persons with Food Insecurity (Bailey-Davis)
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020

The Borrowing Kitchen: Enhancing Food Pantry Nutrition (Anderson)
Webinar Date: Thursday, December 19, 2019

Community-Wide Efforts to Reduce Obesity (Gustafson)
Webinar Date: Thursday, November 21, 2019

Social Entrepreneurship as an Approach to Healthy Food Access and Economic Opportunity (Ammerman)
Webinar Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018

Best practices and innovative solutions to overcome barriers to delivering policy, systems, and environmental change in rural communities (Maslow, Jilcott-Pitts)
Webinar Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2018

USDA Food and Nutrition Service Updates
Webinar Date: Thursday, March 22, 2018

The Costco Effect? Exploring Outshopping Behaviour in Rural Retail Food Environments
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 18, 2018

Discussion on 2016-17 Research Study Overviews and new 2017-18 Research Projects
Webinar Date: Thursday, September 21, 2017

Discussion on USDA Secretary New Rule, Study Updates, Potential New Projects, and Speaker Ideas
Webinar Date: Thursday, May 25, 2017

Small Stores in Rural Maryland: Store Owner Perspectives on Business Operations and Healthy Foods (Shapiro)
Webinar Date: Thursday, February 23, 2017