Culturally Relevant Commercial Tobacco Cessation & Prevention Services for Native American Communities (RFP)

Public health communications, educational interventions, public information campaigns, and community engagements that are highly-tailored to the Native American population and setting such as: Health communications and awareness campaigns designed to 1) increase fact-based information about available smoking cessation options; and 2) facilitate informed decision-making about how to quit smoking. Dissemination activities designed to correct existing nicotine misperceptions AND accurately communicate the relative risks of tobacco products to stakeholders or people who smoke (e.g., communicating FDA’s Continuum of Risk by translating scientific evidence to lay audiences; supporting accurate and complete reporting by media). Training for frontline health care professionals, especially those that serve populations with higher smoking rates (e.g., education programs for providers who directly interact with smokers, including community health representatives, or other Cessation Education. Education activities that address sociodemographic disparities in smoking cessation outcomes by characterizing the needs of the Native American population seeking access to smoking cessation options to inform development of tailored programs; messages tailored to underserved populations with historically poor cessation outcomes or higher failed quit attempts.