The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and Dartmouth Health received a $70,000 grant from the Collective to Strengthen Pathways for Health Research, an initiative of the Doris Duke Foundation, to support the inaugural Rural Health Symposium to be held May 8-9, 2025, at the Hanover Inn. This event, one of 18 symposia across the U.S. participating in the Strengthening Pathways initiative, will unite leaders in rural health research, policy, and community partnerships to address rural healthcare's unique challenges and opportunities. This two-day event will include presentations, panel discussions, and breakout sessions covering various rural health topics.
Strengthening Pathways is a national conversation focused on identifying opportunities to better translate innovations from prevention and care research to maximize societal benefits, comprised of 18 symposia occurring across the country in the spring and summer of 2025. Supported by a collective of leading funders of health research in the U.S., these symposia will illuminate strategies to connect societal health priorities with research ideas, funding models, policies, and commercial incentives to improve health outcomes. The aim is to create a blueprint for action that can shape new funding models, policy changes, and industry investments to promote health innovations that prevent disease and improve outcomes of clinical care.
“The impact of biomedical discovery over the past 75 years has been breathtaking, but our national health research funding paradigm is incomplete,” comments Sindy Escobar Alvarez, Program Director, Medical Research Program at the Doris Duke Foundation. “We have consistently underfunded important research in disease prevention and care that is complementary to molecular-level science, but focuses on keeping people from getting sick – or more sick – in the first place. The Strengthening Pathways Collective and symposia endeavor to advance innovation in health research by bringing people together to think through what we’ll need to improve the societal benefits of research.”
The Rural Health Symposium will be held May 8-9, 2025, at the Hanover Inn, in Hanover, NH. Registration is free and open to the public. The deadline to register is May 5. Click here to register.
The symposium will include oral presentations and posters on original research, health policy, or community engagement focused on the topic of rural health. Abstracts are due by Friday, March 28th at 5:00 pm. Click here for more information about submitting an abstract for the event.
About the Collective to Strengthen Pathways for Health Research
The Doris Duke Foundation, together with American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Dana Foundation, Donaghue Foundation, Prebys Foundation, Robertson Foundation, Susan G. Komen, and additional philanthropic partners are the Collective to Strengthen Pathways for Health Research. The Collective is seeking to bring greater attention and resources for breakthrough health research to improve how we prevent and address disease. Our current activities are focused on elevating voices and ideas to help define an actionable blueprint for progress.
About the Geisel School of Medicine
Founded in 1797, the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth strives to improve the lives of the communities it serves through excellence in learning, discovery, and healing. The Geisel School of Medicine is renowned for its leadership in medical education, healthcare policy and delivery science, biomedical research, global health, and in creating innovations that improve lives worldwide. As one of America’s leading medical schools, the Geisel School of Medicine is committed to training new generations of diverse leaders who will help solve our most vexing challenges in healthcare.
About the Dartmouth Institute
The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) convenes researchers, educators, and practitioners from multiple disciplines across Dartmouth to work toward our mission of improving population health, reducing health disparities, and creating high-performing, sustainable health systems. TDI is a foundational department within the Geisel School of Medicine with deep scholarly collaborations and practice innovation partnerships with Dartmouth Health.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.
