Research Grants to Rigorously Evaluate Innovative and Promising Approaches to Prevent Firearm-Related Violence and Injuries
CDC is funding research to rigorously evaluate innovative methods for preventing all types of firearm-related injuries, deaths, and violence, with two funding options for projects using existing or new data.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA
Due Dates (Anticipated): December 2026 (Full application deadline, projected)
Funding Amounts: Up to $650,000/year for 3 years (Option B); up to $350,000/year for 2 years (Option A); total program funding estimated at $13.5M; ~12 awards expected
Summary: Supports rigorous research evaluating innovative strategies to prevent firearm-related injuries, deaths, violence, or crime, without infringing on legal firearm ownership.
Key Information: Applicants may submit under either Option A or B, not both; faith-based and a broad range of organizations are eligible.
Description
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) 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, while respecting the rights of legal firearm owners. Eligible research may address mass shootings, defensive gun use, firearm-related homicides and assaults, suicides, self-harm, unintentional deaths and injuries, and firearm-related crime.
Applicants may choose from two funding options:
- Option A: Research using existing data (no new prevention activities implemented), funded up to $350,000 per year for up to 2 years.
- Option B: Research requiring new data collection and/or implementation of prevention activities, funded up to $650,000 per year for up to 3 years.
Research can focus on effectiveness, scaling, or improvement of prevention approaches for various populations (e.g., youth, veterans, rural/urban communities, tribal populations, those at risk of self-harm or violence) and settings (e.g., home, school, neighborhood, online). Projects may also target individual, peer, family, community, and societal risk and protective factors.
