In The Healing Power of Antitrust, author Theodosia Stavroulaki (Gonzaga University School of Law) examines both the issue of rural hospital deserts and how anti-trust law can help to protect and ensure health care services for rural populations.

In Misrecognition and Well-being in Culturally White Northern England, author Emily Walton examines the social experience of rural racial minorities. Walton’s research outlines the social experience of minority populations in rural areas, and how such interactions impact racialized minorities’ health and sense of belonging.

In Exploring the Impacts of Rurality on Service Access and Harm Among Image and Performance Enhancing Drug (IPED) Users in a Remote English Region, Luke A. Turnock (Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK) and Kyle J. D. Mulrooney (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of New England, Australia) consider the underexplored geographic and cultural impacts of rurality on IPED usage, particularly in relation to access to harm reduction service.

In Ambulance Deserts: Geographic Disparities in the Provision of Ambulance Services authors Yvonne Jonk, Carly Milkowski, Zachariah Croll, and Karen Pearson (all of the Maine Rural Health Research Center, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine) provide a nation-wide analysis of access to ambulance services in the United States.

In Mental health of agricultural adolescents and adults: Preliminary results of a five-year study authors Josie M. Rudolph (Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois) and Richard L. Berg (Research Computing and Analytics, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield WI) identify and examine factors that influence the mental health of farmers and their families.

Third in our series of infographics produced in Emily Prifogle's Law in Rural America seminar is a closer look into food insecurity in Indian Country by third-year law student at Michigan Law, Taylor Hopkins

First in our series of infographics produced in Emily Prifogle's Law in Rural America seminar: an insightful look at how access to parks and public greenspaces varies across the urban/rural spectrum by Robert Brewer, a third-year law student at Michigan Law.

In Closure of Labor & Delivery units in rural counties is associated with reduced adequacy of prenatal care, even when prenatal care remains available authors Stephanie M. Radke MD, MPH (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics), Laurel Smeins MD (Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics), Kelli K. Ryckman PhD (Department of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, University of Iowa), and Thomas S. Gruca PhD (Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa), MBA examine the availability of hospital-based obstetrical care in rural areas and the effect such availability has on prenatal care.

In Disparities in digital access among American rural and urban households and implications for telemedicine-based services, authors Megan E. Curtis, Sarah E. Clingan, Yih-Ing Hser, Yuhui Zhu, and Larissa J. Mooney (all of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA), Huiying Guo (Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA) discuss rural disparities in digital access and the impact such access has on telemedicine services.