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Smoke- and Vape- Free Scholar Initiative (SVFSI)

Funded awards will support mentorship and training activities that include enabling undergraduate, post-bac and master's level students from CSU/CCCs to conduct tobacco-related research projects in a mentor's laboratory or team, while also engaging in local tobacco control activities and participating in other educational activities.

Welcome to the Smoke- and Vape-Free Scholar Initiative (SVFSI) resources website. We hope you will find these resources helpful in planning and executing parts of the SVFSI or other initiatives aimed at building a workforce representing different tobacco priority populations in tobacco control, prevention or health equity. This is an active website that we periodically update, so please visit more than once.

Read the 2026 Call for SVFSI Applications and apply here