HEAL Pain Research Priorities Workshop: Optimizing Interventions to Improve Pain Management

The NIH HEAL Initiative^® is developing a strategic plan to establish research priorities for the next phase of the initiative that builds upon its progress to date and ensures that the initiative continues to evolve to provide the greatest benefit to individuals affected by substance use and those living with pain. The strategic plan will draw on input from an array of stakeholders—including scientists, health care providers, advocacy groups, and people with lived and living experience—as well as existing research frameworks. NIH invites the research community and people with lived experience with pain to provide input on the HEAL pain research priorities in a series of public workshops.

Co-led by John T. Farrar and Claudia Campbell, presentations and discussion will center around optimizing existing or novel interventions to better suit patient populations; understanding who responds to which treatments; and incorporating the views of individuals with lived experience in development and optimization of interventions.