by April Hale
Daily Lobo
Elaine Stone, adjunct professor at the College of Education's Division of Physical Performance and Development, will speak Wednesday to an audience of primarily medical and biology students about career opportunities and how to sever funding from the National Institute of Health.
The lecture is sponsored by UNM's chapter of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research.
The lecture will be from 12:15-1:15 p.m. at the Health Science Center's College of Pharmacy in Room B-15.
Stone's lecture, "Evidence Based Preventive Research: The National Institute of Health Contribution & Challenges" will focus mainly on preventive research and the benefits of a profession at the National Institute of Health.
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"Preventive research is how to get actual people to engage in more optimal health behaviors, like how to get them to stop smoking or to exercise more," Stone said.
The results of preventive research are used in evidence-based health prevention programs, Stone added.
"I plan to cover in the presentation, the administration structure of the National Institute of Health and the career and research opportunities for people that might want to go into health research for the government," Stone said.
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research student officer and pharmacy student, Niranjan Konduri asked Stone to present her area of research specialty after taking a graduate course with her.
"Dr. Stone has two decades of experience with the National Institute of Health, and she's going to talk about federal health agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services," Konduri said.
Konduri said the main goal of the international society is the monthly lecture series.
The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research is an international organization with chapters throughout the United Stated and the United Kingdom.
Event organizers stress that while the lecture is aimed at pharmacy students, it is open to anyone wishing to attend.
The National Institute of Health is the largest funding agency in the country for health research. It has 27 institutions and centers related to many areas of research such as, evidence, preventive, biomedical and behavioral research.
"I hope the students will be more aware of where research money comes from," Stone said.
Stone will also discuss peer review in the health profession and the grant rewarding process in various research fields.
