The Julius B. Richmond AAP/FAMRI Scholarship Program provides postdoctoral fellowship support for academic general pediatricians and sub-specialists working on children’s secondhand tobacco smoke exposure and means to reduce such exposure, with the goal of training future leaders in research and community/advocacy focused on the reduction and elimination of children’s secondhand tobacco smoke/tobacco exposure. This program provides up to $25,000 a year for two years to support postdoctoral fellows working on issues related to children and secondhand smoke. Projects must be consistent with the goals of the Richmond Center. Click here (doc, 42K) to download program and application information from the 2007 application. Applications are due in the Spring each year.

2007 Awardees

The Julius B. Richmond New Investigator Awards Small Grants Program is designed to stimulate involvement of pediatricians and other child health researchers nationwide in innovative research to protect children and eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke. Grants of up to $10,000 are awarded on a competitive basis to support research projects addressing children's secondhand tobacco smoke elimination or reduction. The Call for Proposals will be posted in January 2008. Click here (doc, 93K) to download program and application information from the 2008 application. Applications are due in the Spring each year.

2007 Awardees

The AAP Richmond Center announces Visiting Lectureship grants of up to $2,500. Grants support 2-day educational programs to promote control of secondhand smoke exposure and integrate control activities into pediatric education at academic institutions and AAP State Chapters. Four-page proposals are due in the fall each year. Click here to download the 2008 program information (doc, 46K) and application (doc, 62K). The deadline for proposals is Friday, September 5, 2008 at 5:00pm Eastern time. Selected recipients will be funded to support having a tobacco control expert visit their institution or community in 2009.

2007 Awardees

The AAP Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Implementation Funds program supports pediatricians in the initial and/or pilot stage of developing and implementing a community-based child health initiative. Grants of up to $12,000 are awarded each year on a competitive basis to pediatricians who want to initiate and develop a pilot project that addresses the local needs of children in the community. Pediatricians and pediatric residents are eligible to apply. Two or more Julius B. Richmond CATCH grants will be awarded each year to projects that address eliminating children's exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. Click here to download program and application information.

For technical assistance or more information about Richmond Center Funding Opportunities contact Tracy Sesselberg, MPH, Sr. Health Project Coordinator.