<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><post link="https://sph.umich.edu/news/2026posts/rural-healthcare-michigan-minds-podcast.html" display="true" featured="true"><title>Michigan Public Health professor Michael Shepherd discusses rural healthcare on university podcast</title><subject/><subtitle/><description>Shepherd, an assistant professor of health management and policy, joins the Michigan Minds podcast to discuss how healthcare has become one of voters' top priorities, especially in rural America, where hospital closures, Medicaid changes and partisan identity intersect.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:07:45 -0800</pubDate><tags><category>News</category><talking-about>Research</talking-about><faculty>Michael Shepard</faculty><other>Health Management and Policy</other><category>Health Management and Policy</category><talking-about>Rural Health</talking-about><talking-about>Policy</talking-about></tags><image><img src="/faculty-profiles/images/meshep.jpg" alt="Michael Shepherd"/></image><imagelarge><img/></imagelarge></post>