The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health & Human Services is a 21-member citizens’ panel of nationally recognized rural health experts that provides recommendations on rural issues to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Committee’s 2011 report to the Secretary examines three key topics in health and human services and their effects in rural areas: rural childhood obesity, place-based initiatives for rural early childhood development, and the rural implications of Accountable Care Organizations and payment bundling.