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The goal of Taking Texas Tobacco Free, represented in some of the active projects listed below, is to promote wellness among Texans by partnering with healthcare organizations to build capacity for system-wide, sustainable initiatives that reduce tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure among employees, patients and visitors.

Funder	Title	Principal Investigator	Collaborators
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas #PP230078	Implementation and Dissemination of an Evidence-Based Intervention to Increase Tobacco Treatment Capacity in Opioid Treatment Programs	Lorraine R. Reitzel, Ph.D.	Paul Cinciripini, Ph.D., and Maher Karam-Hage, M.D.
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas #PP230003	Taking Texas Tobacco Free: Dissemination to and Implementation within Centers Serving Texans who Identify as LGBTQ+	Lorraine R. Reitzel, Ph.D.	Jennifer Cofer, Dr.P.H.
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas #PP210003	Taking Texas Tobacco Free among Substance Users within Community-based Healthcare Settings in Rural and Medically Underserved Areas Across Texas	Lorraine R. Reitzel, Ph.D.	Isabel Martinez Leal, Ph.D.
UT MD Anderson Permanent Health Funds	UT MD Anderson Community Cessation Quitline: Advancing equity in community health through high-value, cost-efficient cancer prevention interventions	Paul Cinciripini, Ph.D.	Lorraine R. Reitzel, Ph.D.
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas #PP240005	Preventing Tobacco Related Cancers by Expanding Capacity for Tobacco Use Interventions Within Agencies Serving Women with Behavioral Health Needs	Lorraine R. Reitzel, Ph.D., and Isabel Martinez Leal, Ph.D.	Janice Blalock, Ph.D.
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas #PP250004	A Virtual, Centralized Lung Cancer Screening Program for Northeast Texas	Jennifer Minnix, Ph.D., Lorraine R. Reitzel, Ph.D., and Lisa Lowenstein, Ph.D.	Paul Cinciripini, Ph.D., and Robert J. Volk, Ph.D.
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas #PP260002	OUTPACE Tobacco: Scaling Up Tobacco-Free Workplace Initiatives in Texas Opioid Treatment Programs	Lorraine R. Reitzel, Ph.D., and Jennifer Minnix, Ph.D.	Isabel Martinez Leal, Ph.D., and Maher Karam-Hage, M.D.

The HEALTH–FAST Program is a targeted initiative to train talented postdoctoral fellows, early-stage investigators and doctoral scholars with the ultimate goal of recruiting and retaining a strong alcohol, tobacco and other drugs (ATOD) research workforce that can mitigate ATOD use and the chronic health conditions that result.

Funder	Title	Principal Investigator
National Institutes of Health (NIDA) R25DA054015	Helping Everyone Achieve a LifeTime of Health Future Addiction Scientist Training (HEALTH-FAST) Program	Lorraine R. Reitzel, Ph.D.

The STRONGER Scholars program is a targeted initiative to train talented scholars to address tobacco use amongst their patients and to understand and conduct tobacco-related cancer prevention/health equity research. The two tracks are a 10-week, full time summer program for medical students and those entering medical school in the fall (national catchment) and a 12-month, part time program for social work, counseling psychology and clinical psychology students enrolled in doctoral degree programs in and around Houston, Texas.