The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sept. 12 released a rural health strategic plan which includes the agency’s key priorities, objectives and outcomes in rural health for the next five years. The CDC's priorities include advancing results-based engagement with partners and communities to address rural health challenges, strengthening rural health infrastructure and the workforce, advancing rural health science and improving rural health preparedness and response capacity. As part of the fiscal year 2023 Congressional appropriations, CDC created an Office of Rural Health to coordinate its growing rural health portfolio across the agency.

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