Greeting by Chair: Theadora Swift Koller, Senior Technical Advisor, Health Equity, Director General’s Office, WHO/HQ

Panel:

• Addressing access barriers faced by rural communities in the Americas through participatory mixed methods analysis – Natalia Houghton and Ernesto Bascolo, PAHO;
• Demystifying the barriers to health services in rural areas using mixed methods research– Sneha P Kotian, WONCA, Rural Seeds Ambassador South Asia;
• Qualitative research, the Index of Deep Disadvantage, and rural health and wellbeing in the USA – Luke Shaefer, Director of Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan;
• Bottlenecks and opportunities to have data on rural health better used in policymaking and programming - Ana Lorena Ruano, Researcher, Center for International Health, University of Bergen.

Closing remarks: Bruce Chater, Chair, WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice