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When I stepped into Student Government, I wasn’t looking to lead. I was looking to understand. What I found instead was a responsibility to represent — standing in the gap between students and the systems that shape their experience.

LSU Health Shreveport is expanding its successful program across north Louisiana. Partnering with Franklin Medical Center and Ochsner LSU Health Monroe, the program will place its first residents in the small town of Winnsboro this summer.

While parishes have yet to be compared with each other and with rural counties in America, one of the key takeaways so far is this: Your health is strongly tied to your education level—and much more so than to your income or age.