Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at UNM presents, “Translating Research to Health Policy: Challenges and Opportunities,” one of its spring 2009 lectures, Thursday, April 9, 12:30 - 2 p.m. in the UNM HSC Domenici Center room 3010. Nancy Ridenour, dean and professor of the UNM College of Nursing is the speaker.
Ridenour served in a staff role for the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee working on Medicare issues as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow 2007-2008 and a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow 2003-2006. She was the inaugural dean of the Illinois State University College of Nursing.
She said that for evidence-based knowledge to guide health policy, researchers must learn translation skills.
“Much of the excellent research published in scientific journals does not reach the policy level. Scholars need to learn how to increase the policy impact of high quality research they produce,” she said.
Ridenour’s lecture will addresses the requisites for translating research into policy. Issues include relevance, audience, timeliness, sustainability, validity and common understanding. The overall conclusion is that, in the current climate of health care reform, anchoring research to the interrelated concepts of cost, quality, and access will enhance the saliency of the research to policy makers.
This lecture will describe ways to translate current research to impact policy; discuss the concepts of cost, quality and access in relationship to research; and describe how non-researchers can assist researchers in translating research into policy.
Continuing medical education credit is available. The Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Similarly, this activity is approved for 1.0 contact hours of continuing medical education by the University Of New Mexico Office Of Continuing Medical Education. Per the criteria for approval from the New Mexico Nurses’ Association, participants who are requesting nursing credit must attend the entire lecture to obtain the certificate of credit.
For more information contact the Center at 277-0130 or rwjf@unm.edu, or visit:
Health Policy.