Thinking 'bout THR Opportunities

Feb 4-19, 2025

You can quickly find updates since the last edition by looking for “*NEW*.

Reminder: I am unable to know which requests for journal submissions are from reputable entities.

Call for Films, Videos, and Photos

• Beyond the Smoke: Cinema, Storytelling, and the Fight for Tobacco Harm Reduction. Submission Deadline: March 21, 2025. Festival Dates: (Hybrid event: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) May 26 – June 1, 2025. (Note: The THR Film Festival will serve as a qualifier for the GFN Festival 2025, held during the Global Forum on Nicotine from June 19–21, 2025, in Warsaw, Poland. This means all selected films will also be considered for participation in the GFN Festival.)

• GFN25 Film Festival. Submission deadline: May 14, 2025.

• GFN Photo Festival. Submission deadline: May 14, 2025.

Call for Nominations:

• Call for Nominations for NAQC’s Board of Directors. (North American Quitline Consortium.) Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025.

• Nominate a Speaker for Aspen Ideas: Health. Submission deadline: March 14, 2025.

Call for Statements/Comments/Testimony/Signatures/Participants:

• *NEW* Your Voice on Vaping - Consumer Survey.

• *NEW* 2025 VSML Consumer Survey.

• CASAA - (US)

• US FDA - Notice Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Tobacco Product Establishment Registration and Listing. Submission Deadline: March 18, 2025.

• US FDA - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Food and Drug Administration's Adverse Event and Product Experience Reporting Program. Submission Deadline: March 18, 2025.

• Sign the petition: UK Vape Tax. Deadline: May 6, 2025

• US FDA - Submit a comment: Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Yield of Cigarettes and Certain Other Combusted Tobacco Products. Submission deadline: September 15, 2025. Information about the rule is here.

Employment/Career Development/CV-Resume Builders

• *NEW* Research Associate King's College London. Application deadline: Feb 20, 2025.

• *NEW* Research Associate - BR-UK team at the University of Sheffield. Application deadline: Feb 21, 2025.

• *NEW* Wake County, NC Deputy Health Director. Application Deadline: Feb 28, 2025.

• *NEW* ASH-UK Senior Policy Officer. Application deadline: Feb 28, 2025

• *NEW* Development Scientist - Broughton. Application deadline: Feb 28, 2005.

• American Journal on Addictions (AJA) Editor-in-Chief. Application deadline: Mar 1, 2025.

• *NEW* Scientist - Broughton. Application deadline: Mar 31, 2025

• *NEW* Rutgers Open Rank Non-Tenure Track Faculty Position. Application deadline: Mar 31, 2025.

• *NEW* Nicotine & Tobacco Research: Call for Associate Editors. Application deadline: Mar 31, 2025.

I did not see an application deadline for the following…

• *NEW* Population Health Metrics is recruiting Associate Editors.

• *NEW* The Rockefeller Foundation has summer intern positions open. Other permanent positions are available, too.

• *NEW* Business Development Manager - R Street Institute.

• *NEW* QualReg Solutions LLC - Consultants. Contact: Gabriel Muñiz

• *NEW* Master Scientist Population Health Research - Reynolds American.

• *NEW* Reynolds American - Sr Manager Public Health External Engagement.

• *NEW* Sr Scientist Public Health Project Manager - Reynolds American.

Grants/Funding:

• NIH Grants and Funding - Conferences and Meetings (US).

• Quit & Thrive Challenge: Community-Derived Solutions to Reduce Menthol Cigarette Smoking. Entries due: Feb 28, 2025.

• *NEW* Ending the Smoking Epidemic by Advancing Global Research for Innovative Smoking Cessation. Application deadline: March 3, 2025.

• FDA Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (US). Deadline: Apr 11, 2025.

• Truth Initiative Tobacco/Nicotine-Free College Program. Grant application deadline: Apr 24, 2025.

• Notice of Intent to Publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for High-Priority Research in Tobacco Regulatory Science (R01 Clinical Trial Optional). Estimated application deadline: Jun 5, 2025

• Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Tobacco Regulatory Science Small Grant Program for New Investigators (R03 Clinical Trial Optional). Estimated Publication Date of Notice of Funding Opportunity : March 05, 2025. First Estimated Application Due Date: August 06, 2025.

• FDA Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings. Opens: Aug 1, 2025. Deadline: Oct 10, 2025.

Opening Soon! Conference/Seminar/Webinar/Symposium Submissions:

• CSAM-SMCA 2025 Scientific Conference. Call for abstracts opening in March.

• APSAD 2025 (Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs. Abstract submission opens March 2025. Abstract deadline: May 5, 2025.

• 78th Tobacco Science Research Conference. Call for papers will be issued in mid-March, and abstracts will be due by mid-May.

• *NEW* 𝗨𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 (𝗨𝗖𝗛𝗗 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱). Abstract submission is opening soon. (Abstracts opened in June for the 2023 conference)

Conference/Seminar/Webinar/Symposium Submissions:

• *NEW* 11th National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal. Abstract deadline: Feb 20, 2025.

• *NEW* Aug 6-8, 2025, Australia - 2025 DANA Conference (Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia). Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025.

• State of Black Health 2025. Abstract deadline: Feb 28, 2025.

• *NEW* The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Toxicology. Abstract deadline: Feb 28, 2025. NOTE: “This Meeting (JSOT52) agrees to WHO and IUTOX ’s Tobacco Control Act.”

• Postgraduate Network (PGN) Conference: Emerging knowledge from emerging researchers. Submission deadline for papers: March 1, 2025.

• *NEW* FDLI Tobacco and Nicotine Products Regulatory Science Symposium. Submission deadline: March 10, 2025.

• 14th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior. Submission Deadline: March 10, 2025

• The National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH). Deadline for late-breaking abstracts is March 14, 2025.

• *NEW* 33rd Asia Collaborative Study Meeting. Abstract deadline: March 14, 2025.

• 27th INFER Annual Conference. INFER is a non-profit organisation supporting research in all areas of economics. Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2025.

• ACBS World Conference. (Association for Contextual Behavioral Science) Submission Deadline for Posters: Mar 20, 2025

• *NEW* FDLI - Tobacco and Nicotine Products Regulation and Policy Conference. Topics and proposals submission deadline: March 28, 2025.

• APHA 2025 Call for Abstracts (oral or poster) and Reviewers. There is a category for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs. NOTE: APHA (American Public Health Association) does not accept abstracts or research from alcohol, tobacco, or firearms companies. Tobacco relationships are described as if you are employed, associated, or affiliated with a tobacco or non-therapeutic nicotine company or their subsidiaries, representatives, producers, wholesalers, retailers, associations, foundations, or trade organizations or received funding (direct or indirect) from a tobacco company to conduct this research. Submission deadline for abstracts and reviewers: Mar 28, 2025.

• Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)-Europe’s 2025 conference. Please note that employees of commercial tobacco manufacturers or their wholly or partially owned subsidiaries may not submit research for presentation at the SRNT Europe Meeting. Abstract submission deadline: March 30, 2025.

• *NEW* (International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol and Other Drugs) - Inebria 2025. (They cover brief interventions for alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs or addictive behaviors.) Abstract deadline for Oral Presentations, Posters, Symposia (3-4 presentations, each lasting 20 min. and a general discussion) and Workshops: March 31, 2025

• 25th World Congress of Psychiatry (WCP 2025). Abstract submission deadline: Apr 2, 2025. Includes a subtopic of tobacco.

• IASLC 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer. The submission deadline for abstracts and education awards is Apr 4, 2025. The late-breaking abstract deadline is Jul 30, 2025. (Note that tobacco control, etc., is a category on the abstract page.)

• Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). Deadline to submit abstracts for the next season: Apr 7, 2025.

• *NEW* The Kahlert Institute for Addiction Medicine is now accepting abstract submissions for our Annual Research Symposium & Poster Session! Submission deadline: Apr 14, 2025

• *NEW* Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management - Fall Research Conference. (APPAM). Submissions deadline: April 23, 2025. (papers, posters, roundtables, panels, and workshops.)

• EPH (European Public Health) Conference 2025. Submission deadline for single and workshop abstracts: May 1, 2025.

• *NEW* 2026 Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) annual meeting. Submission deadline: May 1, 2025.

• International Conference on Drug Abuse and Addiction Studies, in Antalya, Türkiye. Paper submission deadline Aug 1, 2025.

Call for Papers/Abstracts in Journals, etc.:

• Pesticides and Human Health: Between Toxicology and Epidemiology. Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025.

• Closing the Mortality Gap: Novel Approaches to Improve Physical Health and Quality of Life among People with Mental Illness. Manuscript deadline: Feb 28, 2025.

• Call for Papers AI in Evidence Synthesis. Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025.

• Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Substance Use and Addiction Research. Authors are asked to submit their papers anytime but by 1^st March 2025 at the latest. We intend to publish the Special Section by the end of 2025.

• LGBTQ+ Health. Submission deadline: 04 March 2025

• 14th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior Call for Submissions. Submission deadline: 10 March 2025 (Event)

• Social isolation and loneliness in aging. “Quality of life, longevity, and mortality are significantly impacted by social isolation, with an effect comparable to risk factors, such as smoking and physical inactivity.” Submission deadline: Mar 11, 2025.

• Community-Engaged Harm-Reduction Research for Social Justice. Submission deadline: March 15, 2025.

• Feature Papers in the Novel Methods in Toxicology Research. Submission deadline: March 20, 2025.

• Students Have Their Say: Novel Approaches and Solutions to Current and Emerging Public Health Problems. Submission deadline: Mar 24, 2025.

• Consumer behaviour. Submission deadline: 25 March 2025

• Wearable devices. Submission deadline: 27 March 2025

• Exploring substance use vulnerabilities and treatment needs in the autism community. Submission deadline: Mar 30, 2025.

• A Means to an ENDS: The Uncertainty of ENDS Use and Cardiovascular Disease From Human Research to Basic Science Mechanisms. Submission deadline: Mar 30, 2025

• Health Literacy. Submission deadline is March 31, 2025.

• Thinking Outside the Box to Reduce Health Inequities in Perinatal Tobacco and Nicotine Exposure: A Nicotine & Tobacco Research Themed Issue. Submission deadline: March 31, 2025.

• Health Behavior Research (HBR). Authors must be a mentor and mentee. Submission deadline: Apr 18, 2025.

• *NEW* Neurobiology of behavior and cognition: mechanisms, modulation, and clinical implications – innovations and highlights. Submission deadline: April 30, 2025. “Section C: Translational insights in mental health and addiction presents cutting-edge research focused on per-sonalized treatments for substance use disorders, the role of tobacco use in self-medication among people living with HIV, and the interplay between interoception, hormones, and addiction.”

• Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CPT). "Innovations in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.” Submission deadline: May 15, 2025.

• The Tobacco Endgame in Low- And Middle-Income Countries and Indigenous Communities: Evidence Syntheses and Systematic Reviews. Submission deadline: 25 May 2025

• Social Accountability in Medical Education. Submission deadline: May 31, 2025.

• Novel technologies, behavioral and pharmacological targets, and interventions to facilitate health behavior change. Submission deadline: Jun 1, 2025. “Papers addressing a variety of substances, including, but not limited to, alcohol, cannabis, stimulants, nicotine/tobacco, and opioids, and related comorbidities, are welcome.”

• Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics: Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology (PSP). Applications and Innovations in Model-Based Meta-Analysis (MBMA). Submission Deadline: June 15, 2025.

• The Value of Data in the Digital Supply Chain. Submission deadline: Jun 30, 2025

• Assessment and Management of Cardiovascular Risk. Manuscript deadline: Jul 31, 2025.

• Theme Issue: The Emergence of Medical Futures Studies. Submission deadline: Sep 30, 2025

• *NEW* The Policy Studies Journal (PSJ) - Policy Diffusion Studies. Manuscript deadline: Dec 1, 2025. NOTE: see info for earlier deadlines to meet before the manuscript is due.

• STRONGER Scholars: A Research Education Program to Reduce Tobacco-Related Cancer Disparities and Improve Health Equity. A special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025

• *NEW* Exploring Macrophages and Environmental Exposures in the Lung. Submission deadline: June 30, 2026.

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