George Pro
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
faculty
Health Behavior & Health Education, College of Public Health
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George Pro, Assistant Professor in Health Behavior & Health Education at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, investigates public health trends and disparities. His research examines patterns in substance use disorder treatment, including the treatment gap for opioid use disorder and demographic shifts in methamphetamine administration routes. Pro also studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public health behaviors, such as vaccination rates, mask-wearing in rural versus urban areas, and the relationship between excessive alcohol use, rurality, and COVID-19 case fatality rates.
His work extends to specific populations, including an analysis of physical activity patterns among incarcerated women. Pro has received federal funding for his work, including a $226,693 grant from the NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse to validate a survey tool for patient-reported outcomes in methamphetamine use disorder treatment. He maintains an active research group and collaborates with several colleagues at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Nicholas Zaller, Brooke E. E. Montgomery, Clare C. Brown, and Mofan Gu, with whom he shares multiple publications.
With an h-index of 16 and over 65 publications, Pro's scholarship contributes to the understanding of behavioral health, health disparities, and the implementation of health policies.
Metrics
- h-index: 16
- Publications: 65
- Citations: 780
Selected Publications
- Rising and disparate trends in the private/for-profit acquisition of nonprofit substance use treatment facilities, US, 2019–2024 (2026) DOI
- From kratom to 7-hydroxymitragynine: evolution of a natural remedy into a public-health threat (2025) DOI
- Geographic and Policy Factors Influence Telehealth Availability for Substance Use Disorder Treatment (2025) DOI
- Differential Associations Between Increasing Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms and More Frequent Methamphetamine Use, US, 2022–2023 (2025) DOI
- Place-based access to integrated mental health services within substance use disorder treatment facilities in the US (2025) DOI
- Association between different modalities of opioid use disorder-related care delivery and opioid use disorder-related patient outcomes: A retrospective cohort study (2025) DOI
- Services Provided in Spanish in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Facilities: Limited Access in Communities with Fast-Growing Spanish-Speaking Populations (2024) DOI
- Are gaps in rates of retention on buprenorphine for treatment of opioid use disorder closing among veterans across different races and ethnicities? A retrospective cohort study (2024) DOI
- A multilevel analysis of changing telehealth availability in opioid use disorder treatment settings: Conditional effects of rurality, the number and types of medication for opioid use disorder available, and time, US, 2016–2023 (2024) DOI
- Geographic and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Access to Methamphetamine Detoxification Services, United States, 2021 (2024) DOI
- Factors Associated With Self-Reported Overdose Reversals Using Naloxone in Little Rock, Arkansas: Implications for Harm Reduction Service Delivery in the US South (2024) DOI
- HCV Medication Receipt Among Individuals With Methamphetamine, Opioid, and Alcohol Use Disorders in Arkansas, 2018–2022: A Long Road Ahead for HCV Elimination in the US South (2024) DOI
- The association between rurality, dual Medicare/Medicaid eligibility and chronic conditions with telehealth utilization: An analysis of 2019–2020 national Medicare claims (2024) DOI
- We are complex beings: comparison of statistical methods to capture and account for intersectionality (2024) DOI
- National and state-level trends in the availability of mental health treatment services tailored to individuals ordered to treatment by a court: United States, 2016, 2018, and 2020 (2024) DOI
Federal Grants 1 $226,693 total
Grants & Funding
- Linking Criminal Justice and Health Data: Challenges and Opportunities Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Principal Investigator
- Validation of a survey tool to evaluate patient-reported outcomes for new medications to treat methamphetamine use disorder: The PROMT Survey NIH/Nat. Inst. on Drug Abuse Principal Investigator
- Validation of a survey tool to evaluate patient-reported outcomes for new medications to treat methamphetamine use disorder: The PROMT Survey NIH/Nat. Inst. on Drug Abuse Principal Investigator
- Validation of a survey tool to evaluate patient-reported outcomes for new medications to treat methamphetamine use disorder: The PROMT Survey NIH/Nat. Inst. on Drug Abuse Principal Investigator
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