The Primary Prevention of Cancer program is designed to reduce cancer incidence and mortality, reduce cancer disparities, and improve the lives of cancer survivors.
Donor Name: Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
State: Texas
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 08/31/2022
Grant Size: $2.5 million
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The Primary Prevention of Cancer (PPC) award mechanism focuses on increasing implementation of evidence-based strategies to ensure that all Texans benefit from the cancer prevention knowledge that t cheyurrently have. CPRIT seeks to fund multilevel interventions to reduce cancer risk, disease burden, and cancer disparities. Modifiable risk behaviors include tobacco use, obesity, physical inactivity, unhealthy eating, alcohol use, sun exposure, HPV vaccination, hepatitis B vaccination, and environmental/occupational cancer exposures.
Applications should also assess and address social determinants that contribute to cancer burden and disparities (eg, cultural factors, unmet needs, access barriers). Interventions and communications should be structured to address the unique circumstances of the population to be served.
Eligible applications must include the delivery of interventions to nonmetropolitan (rural) and/or medically underserved counties in the state. For example, cigarette smoking and smokeless tobacco use are more prevalent in rural populations. Higher rates of obesity, lower rates of physical activity, and poorer diets contribute to cancer-related health disparities in rural populations and high-risk urban populations.
The Prevention Program’s priorities for funding include the following:
- Populations disproportionately affected by cancer incidence, mortality, or cancer risk prevalence.
- CPRIT-funded programs must address 1 or more of these priority populations:
- Medically underresourced communities
- Racial, ethnic, and cultural minority groups
- Underinsured and uninsured individuals
- CPRIT-funded programs must address 1 or more of these priority populations:
- Geographic areas of the state disproportionately affected by cancer incidence, mortality, or cancer risk prevalence.
- While disparities and needs exist across the state, CPRIT will also prioritize applications proposing
to serve geographic areas of the state disproportionately affected by cancer incidence, mortality, or
cancer risk prevalence. For this RFA, projects must propose to serve nonmetropolitan and/or
MUAs of the state.
- While disparities and needs exist across the state, CPRIT will also prioritize applications proposing
Funding Information
- Maximum Amount of Total Funding: $2.5 million
- Grant Duration: 5 years
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be a Texas-based entity, such as a community-based organization, health institution, government organization, public or private company, college or university, or academic health institution.
- The applicant is eligible solely for the grant mechanism specified by the RFA under which the grant application was submitted.
- The designated Program Director (PD) will be responsible for the overall performance of the funded project.
- The PD must have relevant education and management experience and must reside in Texas during the project performance time.
- The applicant may submit more than 1 application, but each application must be for distinctly different projects without overlap in the projects. Applicants who do not meet this criterion will have all applications administratively withdrawn without peer review. Collaborations are permitted and encouraged, and collaborators may or may not reside in Texas. However, collaborators who do not reside in Texas are not eligible to receive CPRIT funds. Subcontracting and collaborating organizations may include public, not-for-profit, and for-profit entities. Such entities may be located outside of the State of Texas, but non– Texas-based organizations are not eligible to receive CPRIT funds.
- An applicant organization is eligible to receive a grant award only if the applicant certifies that the applicant organization, including the PD, any senior member or key personnel listed on the grant application, or any officer or director of the grant applicant’s organization (or any person related to 1 or more of these individuals within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity), has not made and will not make a contribution to CPRIT or to any foundation created to benefit CPRIT.
- An applicant is not eligible to receive a CPRIT grant award if the applicant PD, any senior member or key personnel listed on the grant application, or any officer or director of the grant applicant’s organization or institution is related to a CPRIT Oversight Committee member.
- The applicant must report whether the applicant organization, the PD, or other individuals who contribute to the execution of the proposed project in a substantive, measurable way (whether slated to receive salary or compensation under the grant award or not) are currently ineligible to receive federal grant funds because of scientific misconduct or fraud or have had a grant terminated for cause within 5 years prior to the submission date of the grant application.
- CPRIT grants will be awarded by contract to successful applicants. CPRIT grants are funded on a reimbursement-only basis. Certain contractual requirements are mandated by Texas law or by administrative rules. Although applicants need not demonstrate the ability to comply with these contractual requirements at the time the application is submitted, applicants should make themselves aware of these standards before submitting a grant application.
For more information, visit Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas.
