Post by Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy

"Once you see the human impact up close, advocacy no longer feels optional. It becomes a responsibility." As an oncologist in rural Minnesota, Dr. Wade Swenson (EMPL'26) watched geography quietly act as a form of triage. He saw patients driving two hours each way for chemotherapy, and others who simply couldn't make the trip and delayed treatment because of it. "There's a kind of internalized scarcity that rural patients carry — a sense that the healthcare system isn't really built for them," he says. "And they're not wrong." Swenson realized the gap wasn't just in the clinic. It was in policy. So he enrolled in McCourt's Executive Master's in Policy Leadership to build his public policy expertise and improve rural healthcare access. Read his full story: https://lnkd.in/eEq8TmVD