Advocacy
NIH Advocacy
In support of these goals, APS is in active dialog with the NIH Pain Consortium around issues of pain research and funding. A meeting was held in December 2005 to discuss the results of an assessment of NIH pain grants. (Bradshaw, D. H., Nakamura, Y., & Chapman, C. R National Institutes of Health Grant Awards for Pain Nausea, and Dyspnea Research: An Assessment of Funding Patterns in 2003. The Journal of Pain Vol 6, No 5 (May), 2005: pp 277-293.) The University of Utah project to quantify grants in pain continues with analysis of 2004 and 2005 funding patterns. APS is supporting this work through a grant to University of Utah.
A second annual meeting was held with APS leaders and the NIH Pain Consortium heads (Drs. Grady, Landis and Tabak) in 2006 (November, 2006).
Further linkages have been created between NIH and the APS Program Committee and the APS web site.