Thinking 'bout THR Opportunities

January 13-Feb 3, 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.)

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

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

Call for Nominations:

• *NEW* 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* CASAA - (US) It is looking like this year is going to be a busy one. Over 100 bills in various states have already been introduced.

• US Request for Public Comment: NIH Plan to Increase Findability and Transparency of Research Results Through the Use of Metadata and Persistent Identifiers (PIDs). Responses will be accepted through February 21, 2025.

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

• *NEW* 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

• *NEW* 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

• *NEW* EU Smoke Free Partnership - Communications and Policy Intern. Application deadline: February 8, 2025.

• *NEW* PROPOSAL TO SERVE AS AN INVESTMENT CONSULTANT FOR THE OKLAHOMA TOBACCO SETTLEMENT ENDOWMENT TRUST FUND. This Request for Proposal (“RFP”) is issued by the Board of Investors (“Board”) of the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Fund (“Fund”) for the purpose of seeking proposals from qualified investment consulting firms (“Firms”) to provide investment consulting services and to assist the Board in managing a current portfolio of approximately $2 billion. Submission Deadline: Feb 14, 2025.

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

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.

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

• *NEW* 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:

• Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management - Fall Research Conference. (APPAM). Submissions open February 12, 2025.

• 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.

Conference/Seminar/Webinar/Symposium Submissions:

• Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction’s (CCSA) Issues of Substance 2025 conference. Submission deadline: Feb 3, 2025.

• 2025 Contemporary Drug Problems Conference. Submission deadline for papers is Feb 4, 2025.

• Together for Hope 2025 - Shaping the Future of Addiction Care. Submission deadline Feb 6, 2025.

• ACBS World Conference. (Association for Contextual Behavioral Science) Submission Deadline for Oral Presentations: Feb 15, 2025.

• *NEW* 2025 Wisconsin Substance Use Prevention Conference. Workshop proposal deadline: Feb 16, 2025.

• *NEW* 3rd International Conference on Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Abstract deadline: Feb 20, 2025.

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

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

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

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

• *NEW* 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

• 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.

• *NEW* 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.

• 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.)

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

• *NEW* EPH (European Public Health) Conference 2025. Submission deadline for single and workshop abstracts: 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.:

• Drugs, Habits and Social Policy: Call for papers. Unknown if there is a submission deadline.

• Italy - Call for Ideas for medical students on tobacco harm reduction. Submission deadline: Feb 14, 2025

• 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. *New Deadline: March 31, 2025.

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

• 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

• 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

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