UAMS Gets Grant to Study Rural Vaccine Hesitancy

By Daniel Caruth

Published December 6, 2022 at 12:30 PM CST

Geoffrey Curran is the director of the center for Implementation Research at UAMS.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' professor of pharmacy practice Geoffrey Curran is the principal investigator for a study to address rural vaccine hesitancy. The National Institutes of Health will fund the $1.8 million study, which will last for three years.

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