State awards Auburn $2M to spearhead innovative rural health care access project

The Alabama State Department of Finance has granted Auburn University $2 million to fund an ambitious health care access initiative aimed at addressing significant health disparities across rural Alabama. Auburn University Outreach, in collaboration with the colleges of Pharmacy, Nursing, Human Sciences and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, first pioneered this groundbreaking project in Chambers County. Auburn’s Rural Health Initiative will expand its transformative healthcare access model to combat health disparities in rural Alabama. This novel approach merges cutting-edge telehealth