July/August 2025

• In July, NPAC continued its efforts, described in the May/June accomplishments section, to conduct intensive meetings on Capitol Hill with members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committee, pairing policy leads (Kate Nicholson and Juan Hincapie-Castillo) with researchers and people living with pain, to support health and pain research.

• Reports from both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees endorsed the funding appropriations we requested. Members of both committees will now conference to harmonize both reports and draft a funding bill.

• NPAC presented on its advocacy efforts at the Pain Collaborative Meeting.

• NPAC Testified at the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration’s sixth Online Controlled Substances Summit.

• As part of ongoing collaborative advocacy efforts, NPAC’s Executive Director, Kate Nicholson, became the co-chairperson of the advocacy committee for the US Association for the Study of Pain (USASP).

• NPAC’s Executive Director participated in the monthly meeting of the Global Advocacy Working Group for the International Society for the Study of Pain (IASP).

• NPAC’s Executive Director joined the IASP Presidential Task Force on  “Guidelines for the Use of Laboratory Animals in Pain Research”. 

• NPAC’s Executive Director co-published the article, A Guide to Engaging with Media to Amplify Health Research, INQUIRY, follow up from a convening and presentation with NIH HEAL Connections on how to engage the media.