{"id":49410,"date":"2026-11-10T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T18:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/?p=49410"},"modified":"2026-11-10T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T18:44:28","slug":"video-celebrating-power-of-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2026\/11\/video-celebrating-power-of-rural-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Celebrating power of rural communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leading up to National Rural Health Day on Nov. 19, Center for Rural Health Director Jacob Warren talks about Center&#8217;s regional role<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Armacost Message 11\/10\/26: National Rural Health Day\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1243334276?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Jacob Warren, director of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ruralhealth.und.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Rural Health<\/a><\/strong>, joins President Andrew Armacost for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1243334276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this week&#8217;s video<\/a><\/strong> to wish the campus community a Happy National Rural Health Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Thursday, Nov. 19, marks the country&#8217;s 15th year of observance,\u00a0celebrating the power of rural communities and the work that happens year-round in promoting rural health care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Given North Dakota&#8217;s positioning as a rurally populated state,\u00a0Rural Health Day is\u00a0a time to celebrate the state as a whole, Warren says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Armacost asks Warren about the Center for Rural Health&#8217;s role on campus, across the state and nationally, as well as about the needs facing rural communities today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Warren shares that the CRH has a dual role in the federal government&#8217;s Rural Health Transformation Program, which will see $1 billion coming to North Dakota over the next five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Through that program, the CRH will help create programs addressing areas such as localized health worker training and care coordination while also awarding funds to communities\u00a0to implement their own programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll be helping them manage that process, look at their outcomes and see how that impact magnifies across the whole state,&#8221; Warren says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Armacost also brings up the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2026\/11\/und-holds-grand-challenges-relaunch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent relaunch of UND&#8217;s Grand Challenges initiative<\/a><\/strong>, with the &#8220;Rural Health&#8221; Grand Challenge shifting to &#8220;Thriving Rural Communities.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Warren says it&#8217;s a change that will go beyond health care in understanding and addressing what rural communities need to thrive, which will help connect more disciplines across campus to promote rural sustainability.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading up to National Rural Health Day on Nov. 19, Center for Rural Health Director Jacob Warren talks about Center&#8217;s regional role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":49411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1121,1135,22,1128],"class_list":["post-49410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-und","tag-armacost","tag-center-for-rural-health","tag-med","tag-service"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VIDEO: Celebrating power of rural communities - UND Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Leading up to National Rural Health Day on Nov. 19, Center for Rural Health Director Jacob Warren talks about Center&#039;s regional role.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2026\/11\/video-celebrating-power-of-rural-communities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VIDEO: Celebrating power of rural communities - UND Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leading up to National Rural Health Day on Nov. 19, Center for Rural Health Director Jacob Warren talks about Center&#039;s regional role.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2026\/11\/video-celebrating-power-of-rural-communities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UND Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-11-10T18:44:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/11\/president-message-11-10-und-today.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Connor Murphy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Connor Murphy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2026\\\/11\\\/video-celebrating-power-of-rural-communities\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2026\\\/11\\\/video-celebrating-power-of-rural-communities\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Connor Murphy\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/de7cedd454b11693326400d99b86e11b\"},\"headline\":\"VIDEO: Celebrating power of rural communities\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-11-10T18:44:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2026\\\/11\\\/video-celebrating-power-of-rural-communities\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":284,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/2026\\\/11\\\/video-celebrating-power-of-rural-communities\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.und.edu\\\/und-today\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/7\\\/2026\\\/11\\\/president-message-11-10-und-today.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Armacost\",\"center for rural health\",\"School of Medicine &amp; 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