The Tobacco Research Network on Disparities (TReND) was created in recognition of the need to progress scientific evidence toward reducing tobacco-related health disparities.

Despite impressive scientific progress in documenting tobacco-related health disparities by income, education, race/ethnicity, and other social determinants, many questions remain about the underlying causes of tobacco use, differential clustering within and across population groups, and the mediating mechanisms and processes that account for the linkages that exist between the causes of tobacco-related disease and the social determinants that produce disparities in disease outcomes.

TReND is transdisciplinary by design, and includes researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines who aim to stimulate new studies, challenge existing paradigms, address significant gaps in research on understudied and underserved populations, and work collaboratively to devise innovative solutions to address tobacco-related health disparities.