The Maternal Smoking Cessation Initiative Award prioritizes research dedicated to developing, implementing, and evaluating culturally-tailored commercial tobacco cessation interventions specifically designed to improve health outcomes for pregnant individuals residing in communities disproportionately impacted by tobacco-related illness and adverse maternal outcomes.
Donor Name: Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/21/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The core objective is to cultivate sustainable interventions that effectively address the unique needs and challenges faced by these communities. Project proposals must demonstrate a firm grounding in relevant cultural frameworks, informed by established theoretical models of behavior change specifically in the context of pregnancy. Applicants will present a strong rationale for the selection of their study population, based on prevalence of tobacco-related illnesses, adverse maternal outcomes, or other factors such as those noted above. Applicants will also develop a defined plan for either data collection or intervention development and implementation with the potential for long-term sustainability. TRDRP strongly encourages inclusion of community members and organizations representing the communities under study throughout all research stages, fostering collaboration from design inception to implementation.
This RFA will support two award mechanisms to address two different TRDRP strategic objectives.
- The Partnered Maternal Smoking Cessation Initiative Award (Partnered-MSCI Award) will support a hypothesis-driven research project between an academic and community PI that focuses on the development and implementation of culturally-tailored interventions for smoking cessation among pregnant individuals residing in communities disproportionately impacted by tobacco-related illness and adverse maternal outcomes.
- The Single Investigator Maternal Smoking Cessation Initiative Award (Single Investigator-MSCI), will investigate the relationship between smoking behavior and the environmental, behavioral, and clinical factors that result in adverse maternal and perinatal health outcomes in communities disproportionately impacted by commercial tobacco use and tobacco-related illness. This comprehensive approach aims to generate not only effective maternal smoking cessation interventions, but also robust epidemiological data that can support open access repositories to better inform maternal and fetal health pregnancy outcomes for these vulnerable communities.
Funding Information
Partnered Maternal Smoking Cessation Initiative Award (Partnered-MSCI):
- Maximum award amount per year: $500,000 per year (Direct Costs)
- Community Co-PI budget max: $250,000 per year
- Academic Co-PI budget max: $250,000 per year
- Maximum Award Duration: 2 years
- Allowable direct costs: Salaries, trainee/internship costs, fringe benefits, supplies, participant incentives, subcontracts, equipment (costing more than $5,000), travel, publishing costs and other dissemination activities.
Eligibility Criteria
The submitted Partnered-MSCI application must include leadership from a team that includes one Community Co-PI and one Academic Co-PI. Each application can have only one Co-PI representing the community side and one Co-PI representing the academic side. If there is a need for other close collaborators, they can be designated in Key Personnel as a Co-Investigator or Consultant.
The qualifications of a Community Co-PI:
- Based in California
- Affiliated with a community organization or a tribal organization/tribe that primarily provides services or resources to people in a community in California (i.e., they cannot be a lone person who is not connected to relevant community-based groups).
- Committed to representing the views of the community of interest
- Have the support of their organization to serve as a Co-PI for the project.
- There is not a requirement for a degree.
- U.S. citizenship is not a requirement.
For more information, visit TRDRP.
