Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment Research Data (R01) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This funding opportunity, titled "Accelerating the Pace of Drug Abuse Research Using Existing Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment Research Data (R01)" (Funding Opportunity Number PAR-10-018), is an NIH grant program led by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) with participation from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and with involvement from the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). The central goal is to speed up progress in substance-use and related behavioral health research by funding projects that rely on innovative secondary analyses of existing data rather than collecting entirely new datasets. In other words, the program is designed for researchers who can ask strong new questions, apply improved methods, or link and harmonize datasets to generate new knowledge using data that already exist in public repositories or are privately held by investigators.

The scientific focus is broad but clearly centered on substance use and its consequences across the lifespan and across populations. The announcement defines drug-using behaviors expansively to include alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, and it also emphasizes HIV risk behaviors and related disorders. Supported projects can examine etiologic and epidemiologic questions (how and why behaviors begin, spread, change, and cluster in individuals and communities), as well as prevention and treatment topics (what works, for whom, and under what conditions). A key additional emphasis is health services research tied to these behaviors, including how people access prevention and treatment services, the quality of those services, and the costs involved. The intention is to leverage the depth of existing social science and behavioral data to produce findings that can meaningfully inform public health policy, clinical practice, and program implementation.

A distinctive feature of the opportunity is its encouragement of coordinated analyses across multiple substance-abuse-related datasets. Applicants are encouraged to work with data that are publicly available or with datasets maintained privately by a principal investigator, and to consider strategies such as combining complementary studies, conducting harmonized analyses across cohorts, or using advanced analytic approaches that extract more value from existing information. This emphasis reflects a practical public health logic: high-quality epidemiologic, prevention, and treatment studies already exist, and reusing them intelligently can deliver faster and often more cost-effective insights than starting from scratch, especially when the analyses are designed to answer timely questions or resolve inconsistencies across prior studies.

The mechanism of support is the NIH R01 research project grant, which typically funds discrete, hypothesis-driven or well-justified exploratory research projects led by a principal investigator. For this specific announcement, NIDA indicated a set-aside of approximately 2 million dollars for fiscal year 2010, with an anticipated 5 to 8 awards, contingent on funds being available and on the receipt of enough high-quality, meritorious applications. The listing includes an award ceiling of 250,000 (as provided in the source summary), which signals an expectation that projects are appropriately scoped for secondary data analysis work, where major new data collection costs are generally not the focus.

Eligibility is intentionally broad, spanning many types of institutions and organizations capable of conducting rigorous research. Eligible applicants include federal, state, county, and local governments; public and private institutions of higher education; nonprofit organizations (including those with and without 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education); for-profit organizations (including small businesses and other for-profits); public housing authorities; independent school districts; and a range of tribal governments and tribal organizations. The announcement also explicitly notes additional eligible entities such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), faith-based and community-based organizations, U.S. territories or possessions, regional organizations, and foreign (non-U.S.) entities. The opportunity states there is no cost-sharing or matching requirement, which reduces barriers for applicants who may not have access to substantial non-federal resources.

Administratively, the opportunity was posted on October 30, 2009, and reflects an original and current closing date of January 7, 2013, with an archive date of February 7, 2013, indicating that it was a time-limited program announcement for that period. The program is cataloged under CFDA numbers 93.279 (Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs) and 93.399 (Cancer Control), aligning with the involvement of NIDA and NCI and underscoring the intersection between substance use research and broader chronic disease and cancer control concerns, particularly relevant for tobacco and alcohol. The official NIH announcement page is referenced through the NIH grants guide link associated with PAR-10-018, and general technical contact support is routed through the NIH Office of Extramural Research webmaster for access and linking issues.

Taken together, PAR-10-018 is essentially a call for well-designed, high-impact research that makes smarter use of data already in hand. It prioritizes strong, methodologically sound secondary analyses that can quickly advance understanding of substance use, HIV-related risk, prevention and treatment effectiveness, and the real-world delivery, quality, and costs of related health services, while enabling a wide range of applicant organizations to participate in producing actionable public health evidence.

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