The Tobacco Cessation Policy Research Center and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center's GOLD Award offers financial support to UC Davis graduate students, residents, and postdoctoral or clinical fellows to conduct tobacco-related policy research and engage with local/state policymakers and community stakeholders in California.
Please check back for the next GOLD Award call for applications.
GOLD Award - Year 1
Title: Psychological Distress Levels and Youth Tobacco Screening and Advice by a Health Professional: National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2022
Congratulations to TCPRC's first GOLD Award recipient, Dr. Shichen Zheng! As one of her PhD dissertation chapters in epidemiology, Dr. Zheng analyzed the 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey and showed that youth with psychological distress were more likely to receive screening but not advice about tobacco from health professionals. Her findings were published in Pediatrics Open Science.
GOLD Award - Year 2
Title: Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Sacramento Healthy Foods Exemption
TCPRC's second GOLD awardee, Dr. Alexandria Reimold, will examine the unintended consequences of Sacramento’s Healthy Food Exemption that allows retailers selling “healthy” foods and beverages to circumvent Sacramento’s tobacco retailer density restrictions.