CCTS Hosts 2024 Annual Meeting of Consortium of Rural States (CORES)

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 1, 2024) — The UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) hosted the annual meeting of the Consortium of Rural States (CORES) on Sept. 26 and 27, 2024. 
 

CORES is a collaborative research consortium of eight academic medical institutions that are working to improve health in rural communities and are funded by the Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health.

Rural communities, which constitute 20% of the U.S. population, experience severe health disparities compared to their urban counterparts. According to the CDC, an array of demographic, environmental, economic, and social factors put rural residents at higher risk of death and poor health outcomes than people who live in urban areas

Through inter-institutional pilot funding and sharing best practices, CORES aims to accelerate research efforts that can reduce the burden of illness and mortality in rural populations.

The 2024 CORES meeting convened representative from each member institution to share research findings and best practices, and advance the consortium's collaborations.  

Learn more about CORES here. 
 

The UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science is supported by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through grant number UL1TR001998.  The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.

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