Dr. Zachary Zimmer, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair and Director, Global Aging and Community Initiative at Mount Saint Vincent University, is part of an international team of scholars recently awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study, “The Demography of Chronic Pain: A population approach to pain trends, pain disparities, and pain-related disability and death.” Dr. Zimmer is a Co-Investigator, along with Dr. Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo and Anna Zajacova, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Western University. As part of this grant a subaward of $246,323 (CAD) is awarded to MSVU for Dr. Zimmer’s continued research on chronic pain in populations of older persons around the world.

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