Community-Partnered Research

Beginning with the Community and Academic Research Award (CARA) and School Academic Research Award (SARA) grant mechanisms, TRDRP has led research grant funders in supporting community-academic partnerships.

In 2016, TRDRP began investing in the Community Practice-Based Research initiative (CPBRI). This program funds collaborative health service research projects aimed at identifying clinical, structural, and organizational factors that contribute to or create barriers to the delivery of evidence-based tobacco cessation treatments for lower-income people enrolled in Medi-Cal.

Read more about the outcomes of CBPRI

Community Partnered Participatory Research Awards, or CPPRAs, launched in 2020, emphasize longer-term thinking and plans that sustain and translate the benefits from the pilot-phase research to the development of new interventions or the enhancement of existing evidence-informed interventions. The expectation is that interventions resulting from these awards will focus on community- or school-based tobacco prevention and/or cessation, as well as practice, program, or policy change. These awards emphasize the importance of community benefit in tobacco control research, cultural humility, and mutual (community and academic) capacity building for a sustained equitable partnership beyond the life of the grant.

Pilot CPPRA Funding Opportunities

Full CPPRA Funding Opportunities

Story One About a CPPRA

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