May/June 2024
NPAC’s Executive Director, Kate Nicholson and Science & Policy Advisory, Dr. Hance Clarke, delivered a symposium on translating research into effective messaging on pain at the Canadian Pain Society’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Ottawa.
NPAC’s Executive Director, Kate Nicholson and Science and Policy Advisor, Dr. Hance Clarke, also the President of the Canadian Pain Society, met with the Honourable Minister Ya'ara Saks following the National Congress on Pain in Ottawa on advancing the agenda on pain in Canada.
NPAC’s Executive Director, Kate Nicholson participated in a Board meeting for the NIH PURPOSE network, which is charged with building the pain workforce.
At the second annual PURPOSE meeting, NPAC’s Executive Director, Kate Nicholson participated in a panel discussion about the future of pain research, presented awards to emerging researchers, and discussed how to present research to policymakers and the media.
NPAC’s Executive Director, Kate Nicholson participated in the National Advisory Neurological Orders and Stroke Council Meeting in Bethesda, Maryland.
In May, the Department of Health and Human Services issued the final implementing regulation for Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which covers nondiscrimination in healthcare in federal programs programs and federal contractors and is the first update to the regulation in forty years. The updated regulation contains an expanded section on access to medical care that NPAC commented on during the rulemaking process.
NPAC Board Members Dawn M. Gibson and Ola Ojewumi attended the Borealis Philanthropy Disability Inclusion Fund convening in Chicago. Borealis Philanthropy generously funds NPAC.
NPAC Community Leadership Council members Charis Hill and Sonya Huber presented at the 2024 NIH Pain Consortium Meeting about their lived experience of pain and its intersection with gender and gender identity.
NPAC’s Executive Director, Kate Nicholson taped two presentations for a side event hosted by the International Association for the Study of Pain at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. The event was in support of a pending global resolution on pain treatment.