Epidemiology Research Branch

Active Epidemiology Grants Portfolio

Primary Branch Program Announcement(s)

Program Areas/Initiatives

• Basic Epidemiologic Research
  Studies that assess and examine rates (e.g., prevalence, incidence), emerging and current patterns, and trends of drug use/abuse and associated behavioral, social, and health consequences (e.g., HIV/AIDS, crime) in general and defined populations, with special attention to health disparities issues.


• Etiology
  tudies of the origins of, and pathways to drug abuse focusing on studies of individual-, familial-, and community-level risk and protective factors and their interactions with emphasis on human developmental processes associated with initial drug use and the transition from drug use to drug addiction, contextual factors, genetic factors, and comorbidity.


• Context and Consequences
  Studies of the dynamic interaction between contextual- and individual-level factors in contributing to and/or protecting against the adverse behavioral and social consequences as well as interventions that attempt to mitigate drug use/abuse and its adverse consequences.


• Methodology
  Methodological studies to improve the accuracy, efficiency, scope, timeliness, and analytical field of drug abuse epidemiologic data and research in the areas specified above.