Catalyst Grant : Alcohol research to inform health policies and interventions

The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Generate data and evidence to monitor and evaluate the potential benefits, harms, and unintended consequences of alcohol regulation on population health and health equity;
• Generate intervention-related evidence to address the needs of knowledge users in this space, including for regulatory aims;
• Facilitate consideration and application of new evidence to inform ongoing and future development of policies, practices and programs related to alcohol;
• Support partnerships between researchers and knowledge users to rapidly inform policies and practices related to prevention, harm reduction, and treatment of alcohol use;
• Encourage evaluation of interventions, population health intervention research, and implementation science approaches that consider sub-populations and/or the biological, structural, and social determinants of problematic alcohol use.