What is a Food Desert?

August 11, 2020

The Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center is housed within the School of Medicine and is dedicated to empowering rural communities to improve access and effectiveness of health care. The Center accomplishes this mission by offering research, collaboration, and training opportunities. Mercer University School of Medicine’s Summer Student Research Scholars program matches students with faculty throughout…

COVID19 Case Rates per County

June 11, 2020

What is on these maps? On these colored maps, you can see the case rates per 1,000 residents. This means that we have calculated how many confirmed cases there are per 1,000 residents. This allows us to compare the urban areas with rural areas while taking into account their population. The darker the orange…

COVID: Understanding Health Information

May 6, 2020

As the crisis with COVID continues, it is important that we have high-quality health information that we can understand and use to make decisions about our health. The coronavirus outbreak has created a situation with new and old instructions on how to be safe that can be quite complex. The instructions to “wash your hands”…

COVID-19 Antibody Testing

April 30, 2020

The Medical Student Minute for the Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center Welcome to the Medical Student Minute! We are so glad you’re here. Through this forum, Mercer School of Medicine students will provide informational updates on some hot topics in the world of public health, medicine, and rural health. This is not medical advice. Have…

Minority Health Month: COVID19 Race and Ethnicity Data

April 23, 2020

April is Minority Health Month, and each Wednesday this month MUSM diversity deans are going to bring you a weekly message on a topic related to minority health. Since the coronavirus/COVID-19 has changed all our lives in a way that we never could have imagined, it seems that is a reasonable place to start. States…

An Introduction to the GRHIC

March 17, 2020

In 2018, Georgia lawmakers dedicated special funds to establish a new Rural Health Innovation Center tasked with confronting the complex health care challenges and wellness disparities facing rural communities. Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM) was awarded the grant funds in 2019 and formally established the Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center (GRHIC) on its Macon…