{"id":8993,"date":"2025-03-18T19:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8993"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:46:45","slug":"nih-cuts-funding-for-vaccine-hesitancy-research-mrna-research-may-be-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/18\/nih-cuts-funding-for-vaccine-hesitancy-research-mrna-research-may-be-next\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH cuts funding for vaccine-hesitancy research. mRNA research may be next"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/03\/12\/nx-s1-5325863\/nih-trump-vaccine-hesitancy-mrna-research\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump administration is slashing long-standing areas of research funded by the National Institutes of Health, claiming they no longer align with the agency&#8217;s priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest target?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions of dollars in NIH grants for studying vaccine hesitancy and how to improve immunization levels. It&#8217;s work that&#8217;s particularly relevant as a measles outbreak grips the Southwest amidst diminishing vaccination rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent weeks, scientists around the country have begun receiving letters stating their existing grants \u2014 money already awarded to them in a competitive process \u2014 were being cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first, the cuts appeared to primarily target research on LGBTQ+ health and other areas that were deemed in conflict with President Trump&#8217;s executive orders on gender and &#8220;diversity, equity and inclusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/03\/12\/nx-s1-5325863\/nih-trump-vaccine-hesitancy-mrna-research\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"EvqxyXcQOTy   Qhs\">EvqxyXcQOTy   Qhs<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR The Trump administration is slashing long-standing areas of research funded by the National Institutes of Health, claiming they no longer align with the agency&#8217;s priorities. The latest target? Millions of dollars in NIH grants for studying vaccine hesitancy and how to improve immunization levels. It&#8217;s work that&#8217;s particularly relevant as a measles outbreak grips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8993\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}