About the Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging
The new National Institute on Aging (NIA)-funded Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA) facilitates innovative research on the multilevel and multidimensional exposures shaping and being shaped by health and aging trends among different rural populations and regions in the United States.
INRPHA has five key priority areas:
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- Identify trends and disparities in middle-age and older adult health and well-being across different types of rural areas and among different vulnerable populations within rural areas and identify mechanisms driving these trends and disparities.
- Identify the implications (e.g., social, economic, political, and infrastructural) of population health and aging trends in rural areas.
- Identify relationships between economic livelihood strategies, economic well-being, and health among middle- and older-age adults in rural America.
- Identify the contributions of physical and/or social isolation on physical, mental, and cognitive health and healthy aging in different rural areas.
- Identify where and how exposures to environmental change and/or climate hazards have affected rural middle-age and older populations.
INRPHA 2023 Annual Meeting Presentations
Thanks to all who participated in our 2023 annual meeting. If you missed the meeting, below you can find the presentation slides on our News & Events page.
How to Acknowledge Support from INRPHA
If your research or other publications have benefitted from INRPHA or your participation in the network, please acknowledge that support. Below is a generic statement you can use:
“Support for this research was provided by the Interdisciplinary Research Network on Rural Population Health and Aging, which is funded by the National Institute on Aging (grant R24-AG065159).