ASPHSTEP UP Small GrantPilot study update

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ASPH-STEP UP Small Grant/Pilot study update

• Cristine Delnevo, PhD, MPH
• UMDNJ-School of Public Health
• January 31, 2006

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Small Grant/Pilot Studies

• Title Poverty, Childcare Responsibility, and
  Womens Smoking
• PI Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, PhD,
• Co-Investigator Hee-Jin Jun
• Used 1995-96 Current Population Survey-Tobacco
  Use Supplement to analyze the impact of parenting
  responsibility on sustained tobacco use

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Small Grant/Pilot Studies

• Title Does Guided Imagery help adults quit
  smoking? A randomized pilot study
• PI Hilary Tindle, MD, MPH
• Co-Investigators E. Barbeau, R Davis, R
  Phillips, D Eisenberg, N Rigotti
• Conducted pilot study to test intervention
  feasibility and estimates of behavioral outcomes
  (e.g., self efficacy, processes of change,
  cessation)

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Small Grant/Pilot Studies

• Title Access and Epidemiology of Bidi Use
• PI Cristine Delnevo, PhD, MPH
• Co-Investigator Mary Hrywna, MPH
• Secondary data analysis of 3 surveys to examine
  the prevalence of bidis as well explore
  correlates of bidi use

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Small Grant/Pilot Studies

• Smoking cessation for homeless clients in
  chemical dependence treatment
• PI Donna Shelley, MD, MPH
• To determine the feasibility of implementing a
  smoking cessation group counseling program in a
  homeless shelter for men in substance abuse
  treatment

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Was the STEP UP Small Grant/Pilot Studies program
a success?
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Back to the beginning

• Small grants/pilot study grants may provide
  opportunities for junior faculty to explore or
  build upon work with communities of interest and
  to advance research, education, service, policy,
  and practice in tobacco studies. (RFP)

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Back to the beginning

• Awards issued through this competitive grants
  program will attract and support tobacco studies
  scholars (RFP)

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Questions to grantees

• Did you use the data from your pilot study as a
  rationale for a larger grant application?
• Was receipt of funding beneficial to you with
  respect to appointment, promotion or tenure?
• Did your funding provide you with resources that
  resulted in a spin off project?
• Did your STEP UP funding have some intangible
  benefit you wish to share?

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STEP UP has allowed us to build capacity to
conduct analysis of tobacco use with the CPS. The
two investigators on this grant and Theresa
Osypuk have developed skills to work with this
rich data set. Subsequently, we intend to seek
additional grants to conduct routine analysis of
tobacco use by race/ethnicity, SES and gender
using the CPS-Tobacco Use Supplement.
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, PhD
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The STEP UP project provided me with covered time
to work with existing datasets. Our work has
resulted in 4 publications, these publications
added to my promotion portfolio and facilitated
my promotion from assistant to associate
professor
Cristine Delnevo, PhD, MPH
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The STEP UP project helped me in my grant
applications as it showed I could obtain funding
and execute a research project
Donna Shelley, MD, MPH
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Using the data from our pilot study I submitted
and received funding for a 5 year NIH-funded
career development award (K12) In addition, I
was hired directly out of fellowship into a
tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medicine
position.  STEP UP was instrumental in shaping
my abilities to secure both NIH funding and an
academic appointment
Hillary Tindle, PhD
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• STEP UP has really made all the difference for
  me! 

Hillary Tindle, PhD
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Summary

• Led to publications and presentations
• Provided mentored opportunities for students in
  SPHs
• Provided pilot data for subsequent grant
  development
• Facilitated academic productivity, which in turn
  aided in faculty appointments and promotion

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Was the STEP UP Small Grant/Pilot Studies program
a success?