At the beginning of 2023, EFIC kicked off the work on our pain research strategy working with a multidisciplinary steering committee. The pain strategy will serve as a foundation stone for European pain research plans for years to come. The overall vision will be to optimise understanding and management of pain through promoting high-quality, collaborative basic, pre-clinical, translational, and clinical research. For any questions, please feel free to reach out to EFIC Research Projects Advisor Mary O’Keeffe here: mary.okeeffe@sydney.edu.au.
The project has now cleared stage 1 (steering committee discussions), stage 2 (literature reviews), and stage 3 (the survey). The ongoing stage is receiving input from the European Pain Forum, including patient input from Pain Alliance Europe. This is an opportunity for these stakeholders to suggest new priorities on behalf of their organisations. After this stage, the steering committee will hold two consensus meetings to finalise the Strategy.
