Jan Probst, interim chair of the Department of Health Services Policy and Management in the Arnold School of Public Health, has been named 2008 Outstanding Researcher by the National Rural Health Association.
Probst is also director of the S.C. Rural Health Research Center, a federally funded center focusing on vulnerable rural poor and minority populations. She has been a major contributor to health services research at the national and state levels for more than 30 years and was one of the first rural health researchers to use economic arguments to make a case for rural hospital support.
Her forthcoming work addresses how rural hospitals are handling low English proficiency Hispanic patients and the contribution of community health centers and rural clinics on access to effective primary care.
She received the Outstanding Researcher Award earlier in May during the health association's annual conference in New Orleans, La.
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