TRDRP Research Awards, including the Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award
Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), University of California
TRDRP is California's tobacco-excise-tax-funded research programme, spanning social, behavioural and biomedical science on tobacco-related disease, addiction and tobacco control policy. Its current call carries four families of mechanism: core research awards, the Community-Partnered Participatory Research Award for collaborative work with community partners, the Maternal Smoking Cessation Initiative, and the Smoke- and Vape-free Scholars Initiative for early-career researcher development. The participatory and policy strands make it one of the more accessible state-level research funders for
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No award ceilings are printed on the what-we-fund overview page; amounts are set per mechanism in the individual call documents, which are issued as PDFs. No figure is recorded here rather than guess one.
- Timing
- Annual cycleNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.TRDRP issues an annual call for applications; the overview page describes the 2027 call with four mechanism families. Deadline dates are held in the per-mechanism call documents and are not printed on the overview page.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Community organisation
- Eligibility
- Applicants must be affiliated with a California-based not-for-profit organisation. The eligible-institution list explicitly includes colleges and universities, hospitals, laboratories, research institutions, local health departments, community-based organisations, voluntary health agencies, health maintenance organisations and tobacco control organisations. US citizenship is not required, but the institution must be located in California. For-profit community-based organisations may participate as Co-Investigators on partnered awards rather than as the lead applicant.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- tobacco and nicotine · substance use · community-partnered research · health policy · cessation
- Apply at
- https://trdrp.org/what-we-fund/index.html
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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