Rural Development

Vrushab Gowda is a law student in the Harvard Law School Food Law & Policy Clinic and guest contributor on this blog. In a matter of months, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has thrust telehealth into the national limelight. It has proven indispensable in delivering virtual care to patients across the country, particularly in low-resource settings across rural America. In…

Katie Smith is a law student at NYU School of Law and guest contributor on this blog. COVID-19 is forcing the United States to become an even more internet-dependent society, and rural and Tribal communities are increasingly being left behind. As of 2016, over 30% of rural Americans and over 35% of Americans living on Tribal lands did not have…