Getting Screened in Rural America

Justin Markowski is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Yale School of Public Health. His research focuses closely on evaluating and improving the healthcare safety net, oriented toward identifying actionable, responsive policy solutions to the current challenges faced by care delivery organizations and the communities they serve. Most recently, Justin led a study published in the Health Affairs journal that found health professional shortage areas to have no significant impact on mortality or physician density.  

Dr. Robert Brodell is a tenured Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology, Past-Founding Chair of the Department of Dermatology, and Billy S Guyton, MD Distinguished Professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He spent 27 years in solo private practice in his hometown, Warren, Ohio before moving to Jackson, Mississippi to work with a team of dermatologists to care for patients, read skin pathology cases, and start a residency training program in 2012.  

Dr. Jane Bolin is the associate dean for research at the Texas A&M School of Nursing and a professor at the Texas A&M School of Public Health. Dr. Bolin is an attorney, and she teaches health law and ethics and human resource management for graduate students. She also serves as deputy director of the Texas A&M Southwest Rural Health Research Center (SRHRC). Dr. Bolin's research focus is diabetes and chronic diseases, cancer prevention and screening, rural health disparities and health law, regulation and ethics.