Advancing Innovative Smoking Cessation through Dissemination, Implementation & Training Grants

This Request for Proposal (RFP) will fund diverse strategies within GA’s strategic plan relating to its Dissemination, Implementation, and Training (DIT) workstream, tailored to the needs of respective countries or populations, that:

• increase awareness of locally available cessation options and their importance,
• correct widespread misperceptions about the relative risk of nicotine compared to combusted tobacco, and
• disseminate accurate and consistent messaging about the potential role of reduced-risk nicotine products for smokers who cannot or will not quit using traditional interventions.

Additionally, GA encourages strong implementation research that examines the important and dynamic contextual factors that may influence the effectiveness of interventions in specific LMICs, or for marginalized populations in HICs.

Objective

• In support of its charitable mission, GA invites proposals for Advancing Innovative Smoking Cessation through Dissemination, Implementation & Training Grants. GA’s strategic objective is to accelerate comprehensive, science-based global efforts to end the smoking epidemic, with a focus on LMICs and marginalized populations in HICs.

Topics

• Project approaches might include, but are not limited to, public health communications, educational interventions, public information campaigns, and community engagements that are highly-tailored to the priority population and setting such as:
  • Health communications and awareness campaigns designed to increase fact based information about available smoking cessation options and facilitate informed decision-making about how to quit smoking.
  • Dissemination activities designed to correct existing nicotine misperceptions and accurately communicate the relative risks of tobacco products to stakeholders or people who smoke.
  • Training for frontline health care professionals, especially those that serve populations with higher smoking rates.
  • Education activities that address socio-demographic disparities in smoking cessation outcomes in LMICs or HICs.
  • Education or training activities designed to increase research capacity in LMICs or among under-represented groups.

Funding Information

• Financing amount: Maximum of USD 2,000,000 total, amount consistent with proposal and work plan.
• Financing duration: Maximum of 24 months, consistent with proposal and work plan.

Geographical Focus

• A geographic priority is countries with high smoking rates and disease burden from traditional tobacco use, with a focus on LMICs and the populations most at risk for premature morbidity and mortality. GA also prioritizes programs specific to marginalized groups within HICs with historically high smoking rates and those with poor cessation outcomes including, but not limited to, people of low socioeconomic status, sexual and gender minorities, people with mental health conditions or substance use disorders, and Indigenous peoples.

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible institutions include academic, think-tank, and health-related research and science centers, and other collaborating centers and institutions with experience in related subject areas such as public health, behavioral health, psychology, epidemiology, economics, disease prevention, and health communications. Previous experience in research related to smoking cessation, tobacco control, marginalized populations, or harm reduction-informed approaches to public health is desirable but not required. Proposals should be submitted by entities registered in their country of origin with an ability to accept grants from not-for-profit foundations incorporated in the United States.

For more information, visit Global Action to End Smoking.