September/October 2025

• NPAC became a founding member of the Disability Economic Policy Research Consortium and attended its first annual meeting co-hosted by the National Academy of Social Insurance the Roosevelt Institute.

• NPAC conducted follow-up meetings on Capitol Hill on preserving the federal pain research budget for FY 2026.

• NPAC’s Executive Director attended the Fall 2025 Council Meeting for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke as a Subject Matter Expert.

• NPAC’s Executive Director attended a Board Meeting for the NIH PURPOSE Network, after helping to get the grant funding the project reinstated.

• NPAC’s co-submitted a proposal for the upcoming annual scientific meeting of the US Association for the Study of Pain on Pain and the Courts.

• NPAC co-submitted a proposal on cross-border pain advocacy for the annual meeting of the Canadian Pain Society.

• NPAC spearheaded two proposals on pain advocacy for the International Association for the Study of Pain’s World Congress on Pain.

• NPAC’s Executive Director co-published, Moving beyond pain intensity as the primary outcome measure: the INTEGRATE pain framework and beyond, in the 50th Anniversary Issue of Pain.