Research Grants to Rigorously Evaluate Innovative and Promising Approaches to Prevent Firearm-Related Violence and Injuries
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control is seeking investigator-initiated research proposals to rigorously evaluate innovative and promising approaches aimed at preventing all forms of firearm-related injuries, deaths, violence, and crime, while explicitly respecting the rights of legal firearm owners. The solicitation covers a broad range of firearm-related issues including mass shootings, defensive gun use, homicides, suicides, unintentional injuries, and firearm-related crime. Applicants may choose to apply under one of two funding options: Funding Option A supports projects that analyze existing data without implementing new prevention activities, with a maximum award of $350,000 per year for up to two years. Funding Option B is for projects requiring new data collection or the implementation of prevention interventions, offering up to $650,000 per year for up to three years. Research may focus on scaling or improving prevention strategies across diverse populations such as youth, veterans, rural and tribal communities, and those affected by interpersonal or intimate partner violence, as well as across varied settings like homes, schools, neighborhoods, and online spaces, with attention to individual, family, community, and societal risk and protective factors. Applications must be submitted under either Funding Option A or B, but not both, and should aim to produce rigorous, evidence-based findings on what works to reduce firearm-related harm. The work can explore how protective factors and community-level interventions influence outcomes, with an emphasis on practical, scalable solutions that can inform public health policy and practice. The opportunity is open to researchers across disciplines who can design studies that measure effectiveness without infringing on constitutional rights. The funding opportunity was posted on July 9, 2026, and point of contact information for inquiries is provided through the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, with applications managed via Grants.gov. The agency emphasizes that proposals must align with its mission to advance injury prevention through science, and applicants are encouraged to consider equity, feasibility, and real-world impact in their study designs.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC or the Injury Center) is soliciting investigator-initiated research to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of innovative and promising approaches to prevent all forms of firearm-related injuries, deaths, violence, or crime without infringing on the rights of legal firearm owners. For this announcement such forms include: Mass shooting incidents, Defensive gun use incidents, Firearm-related homicides and assaults, Firearm-related suicides and self-harm, Unintentional firearm deaths and injuries, Firearm-related crime.
This NOFO offers Funding Option A or B to address the research objective. Applicants may submit a research proposal under either Funding Option A or B (not both).
Funding Option A will support research projects that rely on existing data to evaluate effectiveness and that do not support implementing prevention activities. These projects will be funded up to $350,000 per year (direct and indirect costs) for a period of performance up to 2 years.
Funding Option B will support research projects that require new data collection and/or implementation of prevention activities to evaluate effectiveness. These projects will be funded up to $650,000 per year (direct and indirect costs) for a period of performance up to 3 years.
Investigations could, for example, conduct research to evaluate the effectiveness and/or test the effects of scaling up, expanding, or improving approaches: 1) To prevent mass shooting incidents, suicide/self-harm firearm injuries, firearm-related assaults and homicides, unintentional firearm deaths and injuries, and firearm-related crime; 2) To study defensive gun use as a strategy for prevention of injuries, deaths, and crime 3) For different population groups (e.g., children, youth, young adults, active-duty military/veterans, rural communities, tribal populations, and those at risk of harming themselves or others, including in situations of family and intimate partner violence); 4) For different settings (e.g., rural/urban, home, school, neighborhood, community, online) that can be leveraged to prevent firearm-related injuries and crime; 5) For addressing various individual, peer/family, community and societal risk and protective factors including approaches that address the community factors that contribute to firearm-related injuries, violence, deaths, and crime.