RUPRI examines a broad range of topics that affect rural places, ranging from local issues to global challenges. Scholars and practitioners from across the country collaborate to develop research, analysis, and policy recommendations that advance rural communities.
We facilitate and inform the relationship between rural places and the arts through dialogue and collaborations involving artists, organizations, and communities.
Learn more about this focus, including the Next Generation initiative.
We consider the roles that arts, culture, entrepreneurship, and innovation play in forming the diverse assets of cultural wealth within rural communities.
Learn more about this focus, including the Rural Cultural Wealth Lab.
We work to understand and advocate for best practices in the communication, access, organization, finance, and delivery of healthcare services in rural areas.
We advocate for public policy that elicits good governance and adequate resources to foster prosperous, sustainable communities.
Learn more about this focus, including the Center for Local and State Policy.
We examine the activities and effects of rural wealth, public investment, and social mobility and develop frameworks to enable deeper analysis.
Learn more about this focus, including the Population and Place Analytics Panel.
Our scholars provide expert testimony and insight to national policymakers, including the United States Congress. We also participate in the global conversation on rural issues.
Our past focus areas now inform research in many of our current focus areas.
Rural Policy Research Institute
The University of Iowa
College of Public Health
319-384-3857 | info@rupri.org