Recent Posts

Read our two recent Knowledge Hub posts on Community-Based Participatory Research and Northern Indigenous Food Insecurity here.

Check out short interview’s from our first-year FLEX students, Maya and Luke, who are continuing to work with the Network in their second year of Medical school. We are grateful to have you on our team, Luke and Maya! You can read other students’ rural health project testimonials here too.

In this newsletter, we respond to COP26 and what it means for rural communities, provide updates on the network’s activities, upcoming events, research, funding and volunteer opportunities, online resources, recent rural research publications and more.

In the past 6 months, British Columbia has experienced a heat dome, wildfires, and most recently an atmospheric river that brought widespread flooding and landslides. The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) recognized the importance of building resilience to the impacts of climate change, including extreme weather events and disruption to agricultural systems.

Learn more about our current pan-Canadian research project, as we build on lessons learned from the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen rural community health and health services.