Former US Surgeon General discusses rural health care initiatives at Purdue

The former U.S. Surgeon General is hopeful Purdue’s new rural healthcare initiatives will remove barriers.  

Jerome Adams, a presidential fellow at Purdue, says the university’s Health Equity Strategy promotes food for health.

“One of our big pillars as I build out our health equity strategy at Purdue is food for health. When we talk about food for health, we’re talking about nutrition. How can we educate people so that they understand how to eat healthier but then also how can we give them the opportunities that they may not have in a rural community to eat healthy,” he says.

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