The Impact of Chemical Policy to Reduce or Eliminate Exposures Linked to Breast Cancer
As part of our program-directed initiatives, CBCRP intends to fund up to four projects related to the effectiveness of chemicals policy.
With more investigation needed to understand the efficacy of different chemical policy interventions, CBCRP seeks to support research to broaden and deepen understanding of what types of policy interventions are effective to reduce population-wide exposure to chemicals that may cause or contribute to breast cancer.
Download the full RFP below.
Full Request for Proposal (pdf)
Application materials are available on proposalCENTRAL.
An informational webinar was held on January 25, 2016. The archived webinar is available here: https://youtu.be/GwMDCnMDJpY
Up to four grants will be issued to begin filling important gaps in understanding the best ways to intervene to reduce exposure to chemicals that may contribute to breast cancer.
Proposals may encompass the following elements:
- Interventions studied can be municipal, state or national policies or regulations or can focus on market interventions, such as boycotts, pressure campaigns, public relations challenges to companies or industries.
- Pilot studies to benchmark exposure levels related to new interventions will be considered.
- Different measures of efficacy are appropriate. For example, studies may measure changes in body burden, changes in consumer behavior, reductions in emissions, reformulation of products, company commitments or other measures that clearly demonstrate the impact of different interventions.
- Unintended consequences of policy interventions can also be assessed. For example, there has been great success moving the market away from using BPA in baby products, however the alternatives may not be an improvement.
Project Guidelines
- Projects must include strategies for effectively disseminating and communicating research findings and translating them into guidance for regulatory, public health and individual decision-making.
- Projects are encouraged to integrate expertise in relevant disciplines such as toxicology, cancer biology and regulatory assessment, and to include advocates, community members involved in reducing exposure to chemicals, and regulators.
- Proposals must investigate interventions that are grounded in a clear scientific rationale and must be linked to chemicals that may contribute to breast cancer (known and suspected mammary gland carcinogens, mammary gland toxicants, endocrine disruptors, and/or chemical with similar mechanisms of action).
- Proposals should describe the rationale for choosing a particular chemical or group of chemicals for the focus of the proposed study.
- Proposals should result in useful information for decision makers and advocates to apply to their efforts.
Project duration and budget caps
- Maximum duration: 3 years
- Budget cap for total project direct costs: $300,000