How is Rural Health Compass trying to address these challenges?
Rural Health Compass is building a space for individuals and organizations to find relevant rural health and policy information to help them advocate for their rural communities.
- Connection & Collaboration
To build connections and encourage collaboration between communities, countries and sectors in Europe. Many individuals, groups and organizations are already doing amazing work in gathering data, doing research, and implementing innovative solutions. RHC hopes to make it easier for you to find each other, learn from each other and work together on achieving better outcomes for your communities.
- Knowledge Translation
To find relevant knowledge and resources and make them more accessible for different audiences, from rural communities to policymakers. There are many different reports, documents and research papers that have been produced, it is important to extract relevant data and present it in a way that will help achieve the greatest impact. RHC aims to establish a repository of useful resources for you to use to be heard.
- Getting Rural on the Agenda
To build advocacy collaboratives and amplify the rural voice so that it is heard in the places where decisions are made – getting rural health and wellbeing on the agenda locally, nationally and regionally.
Dr Veronika Rasic
Dr Veronika Rasic is the founder and director of Rural Health Compass.
Dr Veronika Rasic is the creator and host of the Rural Road to Health Podcast which aims to amplify the stories and voices of rural communities and people working in rural health. As an advocate for rural health equity, Dr. Rasic encourages students and early career healthcare professionals to delve into opportunities within rural healthcare. In 2017 she co-founded Rural Seeds, a global network designed for students and early-career health professionals with an interest in rural health. Dr. Rasic also holds an executive role within EURIPA (European Rural and Isolated Practitioner Association), she is a part of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice and also contributes to the WONCA Europe Working Party for Policy Advocacy. Dr Rasic is passionate about working on the intersection between rural health and policy to improve health outcomes for rural communities.
Dr Rasic earned her medical degree from the University of Rijeka in Croatia. Her early career in Croatia centred around pre-hospital emergency medicine and rural primary care. In 2016, she relocated to the UK and by 2019, completed her GP training. She now actively practices as both a locum and digital GP across various primary care settings in the UK while also undertaking a Masters in Global Health Policy with the University of Edinburgh.
