International Rural Health and Rural Nursing Research Conference

The conference follows in the tradition of previous rural nursing and health research conferences held most recently in Binghamton, New York, USA; Sudbury, Ontario, Canada; and Albury, Australia. Nationally and internationally known researchers, practitioners, and educators from multiple disciplines whose focus is improving the health of rural people and communities are invited to participate.

Keynote Presenters

Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN
Administrator 
Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 
Rockville, Maryland, USA

Susan Wilburn, MPH, RN
Technical Officer 
Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization 
Geneva, Switzerland

Larry Gamm, PhD
Regents Professor 
Department of Health Policy and Management 
School of Rural Public Health 
Director
Center for Health Organization Transformation
Texas A&M University Health Science Center 
College Station, Texas, USA

Judith Kulig, PhD, RN
Professor and University Scholar 
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge Alberta, Canada 
Co-Editor 
North American Section Rural and Remote Health

Clarann Weinert, SC, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor Emerita
Montana State University 
Bozeman, Montana, USA 

Continuing Education

This activity has been submitted to Montana Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. Montana Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.