Kentuckian named to NRHA’s Rural Health Congress:
Dr. Baretta Casey, director of the University of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard, has been appointed to the National Rural Health Association’s Rural Health Congress.
The Rural Health Congress is NRHA’s policy-making body. It is made up of elected representatives from each of the association’s nine constituency groups, its State Association Council, its State Office Council, its issue groups, and the association’s officers. This gives the board grassroots representation that reflects the concerns of NRHA’s membership.
The Rural Health Congress determines the association’s positions on public policy through a series of policy briefs and issue papers. Casey will be a representative of the Research and Education Constituency Group, which is chaired by Roxanna Jokela, director of Rural Health Education Network and deputy director of the Nebraska Area Health Education Center Program Office at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
“Baretta Casey brings a wealth of applied rural health professions workforce and health services research experience, as well as national workforce policy experience with the American Medical Association,” Jokela said. “She will be a valued addition to our representation on the NRHA Rural Health Congress.”
