Thinking 'bout THR Opportunities
January 1-12, 2025
You can quickly find updates since the last edition by looking for “*NEW*.
Reminder: I am unable to know which requests for submissions are from reputable entities.
Call for Films and Videos
*NEW* 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.)
Call for Nominations:
Nominate a Speaker for Aspen Ideas: Health. Submission deadline: March 14, 2025.
Call for Statements/Comments/Testimony/Signatures/Participants:
CASAA - US
A call for evidence on standardised packaging for all tobacco products, cigarette papers and herbal smoking products and potentially introducing pack inserts. Submission Deadline: Jan 28, 2025 (UK)
*NEW* 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.
Sign the petition: UK Vape Tax. Deadline: May 6, 2025
Employment/Career Development
*NEW* Metrics for Management - Business Development Strategy Consultant. Application deadline: Jan 20, 2025
*NEW* Research, Consultancy and Training at Centre for Behaviour Change (CBC) at UCL (London). Application deadline: Jan 26, 2025.
Broughton is taking applications for Development Scientist, Equipment Technician, and Project Manager. Application deadline: Jan 31, 2025.
*NEW* American Journal on Addictions (AJA) Editor-in-Chief. Application deadline: Mar 1, 2025.
*NEW* Global Action to End Smoking (GA) is looking for a part-time content specialist. (Application deadline unknown)
Grants/Funding:
(Small Scale Projects) Ending the Smoking Epidemic by Advancing Global Research for Innovative Smoking Cessation. Application deadline: Jan 17, 2025
(Large Scale Projects) Ending the Smoking Epidemic by Advancing Global Research for Innovative Smoking Cessation. Application deadline: Jan 17, 2025
(Large Scale Projects) Advancing Innovative Smoking Cessation through Dissemination, Implementation & Training Grants. Application deadline: Jan 17, 2025
(Small Scale Projects) Advancing Innovative Smoking Cessation through Dissemination, Implementation & Training Grants. Application deadline: Jan 17, 2025
Quit & Thrive Challenge: Community-Derived Solutions to Reduce Menthol Cigarette Smoking. Entries due: Feb 28, 2025.
FDA Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings. Opens: Feb 1, 2025. Deadline: Apr 11, 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
*NEW* 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.
Conference/Seminar/Webinar/Symposium Submissions:
*NEW* Addiction and the Family International Network (AFINet) 6th Annual Conference: AFINet 2025: Addiction, Family Members, and Affected Others. Abstract deadline: Jan 19, 2025.
22nd Annual Hawai‘i International Summit. Poster submission deadline is Jan 22, 2025.
2025 ASCO Annual. (American Society of Clinical Oncology) Abstract deadline: Jan 28, 2025
*NEW* The NAADAC 2025 Annual Conference. Call for presentation proposals for 1.5 hour breakout sessions. Submission Deadline: Jan 31, 2025.
The 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. Submission deadline: Jan 31, 2025. (see editorial)
Call For Papers - Shame and Medicine 2025 Conference. Submission deadline: Jan 31, 2025.
*NEW* Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management - Fall Research Conference. (APPAM). Submissions open February 2025. The deadline is unknown as of Jan 11, 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. Submission Deadline for Posters: Mar 20, 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. Abstracts: Submission opens Jan 31, 2025. 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* APHA 2025 Call for Abstracts (oral or poster) and Reviewers. There is a category for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs. NOTE: APHA 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: Mar 28, 2025.
*NEW* APSAD 2025 (Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs. Abstract submission opens March 2025. Abstract deadline: May 5, 2025.
*NEW* International Conference on Drug Abuse and Addiction Studies, in Antalya, Türkiye. Paper submission deadline Aug 1, 2025.
Call for Papers/Abstracts in Journals, etc.:
*NEW* Drugs, Habits and Social Policy: Call for papers. Unknown if there is a submission deadline.
E-cigarettes and Vaping Products: Health Effects and Toxicological Impacts. A special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 January 2025.
Rural Health Disparities: Contemporary Solutions for Persistent Rural Public Health Challenges. “These challenges include limited health care access, excessive tobacco use in poor counties, limited physical activities, socioeconomic inequities, behavioral and mental health conditions, and major chronic diseases.” Submission deadline: Jan 24, 2025.
20th Anniversary of the Irish Smoking Ban. Submission deadline: Jan 25, 2025.
Tenth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. Call for abstracts opens Dec 1, 2024. Deadline for submissions is Janurary 31, 2025.
Thinking Outside the Box to Reduce Health Inequities in Perinatal Tobacco and Nicotine Exposure: A Nicotine & Tobacco Research Themed Issue Submission deadline: February 1, 2025.
Italy - Call for Ideas for medical students on tobacco harm reduction. Submission deadline: Feb 14, 2025
*NEW* 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.
*NEW* Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Substance Use and Addiction Research. Authors are asked to submit their papers anytime but by 1st 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.
*NEW* Community-Engaged Harm-Reduction Research for Social Justice. Submission deadline: March 15, 2025.
*NEW* 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
*NEW* 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
*NEW* Health Literacy. Submission deadline is March 31, 2025.
Health Behavior Research (HBR). Authors must be a mentor and mentee. Submission deadline: Apr 18, 2025.
*NEW* 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.”
*NEW* 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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