The Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) funds research that enhances understanding of tobacco use, prevention and cessation, the social, economic and policy-related aspects of tobacco use, and tobacco-related diseases in California. The TRDRP recently released two RFAs - the Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award (CPPRA) and the Policy Rapid Response Research Award.
Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award (CPPRA)
This award supports a two-year, pilot research grant to build equitable and sustainable partnerships in order to plan and conduct meaningful research that will impact community- or school-level tobacco use and inform evidence-based prevention and treatment programs and interventions or contribute to practice/policy changes in California clinics, schools, institutions, and/or communities.
Read more about the CPPRA RFA.
Policy Rapid Response Research Award
This is a new award type for the 2020 Call for Applications. The initial 2-year award supports research and community teams to work together on common tobacco-policy aims. Applicants should consider both using existing data and collecting new information to help inform policy research questions.
This award supports the building of partnerships in order to plan and conduct meaningful research intended to reduce community-level tobacco use. This grant type has multiple requirements, including a collaborative research partnership comprised of a Community co-PI and an Research Organization co-PI to gather preliminary data on tobacco policy research questions of importance to the community of interest.
Applicants will be required to create research questions from one of the following tobacco policy areas: 1.Tobacco product flavor bans and restrictions, 2. Restricting tobacco product availability in retail locations, 3.Protecting nonsmokers from secondhand nicotine or cannabis smoke or aerosol, 4. Evaluation of strategies to prevent the deposition of and incentivize the removal of tobacco product waste from the California environment.
Read more about the Policy Rapid Response Research Award RFA.
