Kansas IGNITE: Advancing Rural Health through Women-Centered AI Capacity Building

This project builds women-centered AI capacity in rural Kansas by embedding peer-supported learning into everyday work across hospitals and local health departments. Through multimodal learning, wraparound technical assistance, peer communities and workplace-embedded AI Skill Pods, women will gain applied AI skills, confidence and leadership capacity in governance and decision making. By addressing individual and organizational barriers, the project will strengthen workforce retention, support ethical AI adoption and create a scalable model for rural communities nationwide.