Requests for Proposals/Other Announcements

Requests for Proposals

Request for Applications: State and Community Tobacco Control Policy and Media Research
The National Cancer Institute is pleased to announce the release of the State and Community Tobacco Control Policy and Media Research RFA. The purpose of this RFA is to solicit cooperative agreement (U01) applications for research projects to investigate the effectiveness of the State and community tobacco control policy and media interventions. Focal areas include secondhand smoke policies, tax and pricing policies, tobacco industry marketing and promotion, mass media countermeasures, and community and social norms. The proposed projects may address tobacco use and exposure in any form in the United States and may involve both observational and intervention studies. In addition, this FOA also solicits separate cooperative agreement applications for a Coordinating Center for this program. Letters of Intent are due by December 22, 2009. The application deadline is January 22, 2010. Click here for more information. Contact Bob Vollinger with any questions about this RFA.

Request for Applications: Effectiveness Research on Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Patients Research Coordinating Unit (U01)
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) solicits four-year cooperative agreement (U01) grant applications from institutions/organizations to serve as the Research Coordinating Unit (RCU) for the grantees of the Effectiveness Research on Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Patients (see RFA-HL-10-020), referred to as primary research sites (PRSs). The purpose of the PRS FOA (RFA-HL-10-020) is to encourage research to evaluate the translation of efficacious smoking cessation strategies initiated during hospitalization and continued post-discharge into effective programs that can be widely implemented in routine clinical practice, and assess the cost effectiveness of these interventions. The closing date for applications is January 19, 2010. Click here for more details.

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Awards

2010 Youth Advocates of the Year Awards
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is now accepting nominations for the Youth Advocates of the Year Awards, which honor top youth advocates from across the country — youth who have fought hard to promote tobacco prevention legislation in their home states, to reduce tobacco marketing to kids in their communities and to stop their peers from using tobacco. Nomination forms must be postmarked by Friday, January 22, 2010. Click here to read more about the award, and for information about submitting a nomination.

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Other Announcements

Register now for TTAC’s Web-based courses
Have you been meaning to build your program planning and evaluation skills? Would you like to gain these skills without having to travel or miss work? Registration is now open for two Web-based courses being offered in spring 2010 by the Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium. The Logic Model Essentials course is designed to provide an understanding of the purpose and features of a logic model, the skills and tools needed to build a logic model, and knowledge of the important ways to apply logic model results. The Fundamentals of Evaluation course guides participants through the evaluation process – from planning to reporting results – while giving them the opportunity to develop their own evaluation plan. Click here for complete course and registration information.

Your media campaign on the cover of Tobacco Control?
The journal Tobacco Control is always looking for striking cover images. For consideration, please send a copy of the image or a URL where it can be viewed and contact information to libby.smith@ucsf.edu. If your image is selected you must be able to give permission for use and supply a high-resolution image for printing purposes.

Johns Hopkins: Scholarship available for Certificate in Global Tobacco Control
As part of our effort to develop global tobacco control capacity, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has developed a fully accredited certificate program in Global Tobacco Control. The program aims to increase tobacco control research capacity by providing formal academic training to research scientists and tobacco control professionals to equip them with the technical skills necessary to take a leadership role in the global tobacco control movement. Tobacco control professionals, epidemiologists, behavioral scientists, government officials, and others involved in tobacco control are encouraged to apply. You can apply for the 2010 Global Tobacco Control Certificate Program Scholarship until midnight EST, December 6, 2009. Click here to learn more about the certificate program.

Solicitation for written comments on the development of Healthy People 2020
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is soliciting written comments on key elements of Healthy People 2020, including the vision, mission, overarching goals and framework. Every 10 years, through the Healthy People initiative, HHS leverages scientific insights and lessons from the past decade, along with the new knowledge of current data, trends, and innovations to develop the next iteration of national health promotion and disease prevention objectives. Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease. HHS invites the public to provide comments and suggestions as part of the collaborative process of building Healthy People 2020. Click here for more information about submitting a comment online. Public comments on the proposed objectives for Healthy People 2020 will be accepted through December 31, 2009.

Last chance to submit comments to the FDA on tobacco regulation
The deadline for public input on the implementation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s historic new authority overseeing tobacco products in the United States is December 28, 2009. In a Federal Register notice, the agency invites the public to provide information and share views on a wide range of topics, from product content to advertising and marketing. Comments are being accepted electronically and by mail. Electronic comments can be submitted here [use the Search Documents option to search the site for FDA–2009–N–0294]. Click here to read the Federal Register notice announcing the extension of the public comment period. Click here to view a model letter to the FDA and information for state and local tobacco control advocates from the Tobacco Control Network. Click here to visit the FDA website about tobacco regulation.

Presentations available online from the 5th National Summit on Smokeless and Spit Tobacco
The 5th National Summit on Smokeless and Spit Tobacco was a big success! A number of items are available on the summit website to serve as an historical record of the program and to make some of the knowledge gained and shared in Madison available to professionals and youth across the country and around the world. All of the summit PowerPoint presentations are available here. Click here to watch and listen to the plenary sessions as podcasts. The podcasts will open in iTunes. If you need to download iTunes, please click here.

Legacy unveils new name and logo, reflecting national interest in preventive care
The American Legacy Foundation®, best known for its edgy youth smoking prevention campaign truth® and the EX® quit smoking campaign, is unveiling a new name and logo to emphasize its role as a leading public health organization. While legally remaining the American Legacy Foundation, the public charity will now use the shortened name “Legacy” for its daily operations. The new logo includes a new tagline “For Longer Healthier Lives,” which highlights the organization’s public-health focus and clarifies the outcome of the tobacco control work LegacySM conducts – by giving teens the facts and information they need to reject tobacco and by providing adult smokers with the tools they need to quit and stay quit, Legacy is helping people live longer, healthier lives. Click here to read the announcement from Legacy.

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