State and Community Tobacco Control Policy and Media Research (U01)

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Purpose. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), solicits 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. The Coordinating Center will provide the necessary scientific leadership and administrative framework to facilitate interactive and integrative collaboration and communication among the awardees of individual Research Projects to be funded by this initiative and between the awardees and NCI staff. Mechanism of Support. This FOA will utilize the NIH U01 cooperative agreement mechanism for both the Research Projects and the Coordinating Center. Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards. The NCI expects to commit approximately $12 million in Fiscal Year 2010 to fund approximately four to six Research Project Awards and one Coordinating Center award. Future year amounts will depend on annual appropriations.

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