https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-019-1021-3
The principal investigators of the study were Kathy Rush, PhD, RN Associate Professor at the School of Nursing UBC Okanagan and Dr. Mike Chiasson, Professor, Faculty of Management, University of British Columbia Okanagan.
Note: it was at this meeting in Kelowna, on April 27, 2017 that discussion began that led to the formation of the BC Rural Health Network, officially launched seven months later on December 1, 2017.

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