Planning to Submit a CIHR Project Grant?

The Chronic Pain Network is offering strategic support to help build a strong, integrated Knowledge Mobilization (KM) section into your grant submission.
 
CPN’s Knowledge Broker, working in collaboration with CPN patient partners, will offer tailored, co-designed KM planning to ensure your application includes actionable and aligned strategies to move research evidence to the right audiences, in the right ways, at the right time.

This offering is available to CPN-affiliated research teams preparing submissions for the Fall 2025 CIHR Project Grant competition.

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PxP2025  Virtual Conference

September 9-12, 2025.

The PxP (For Patients, By Patients) conference is a free, virtual event that aims to bring you a wealth of knowledge, skills and resources on Patient Engagement in health research.

Register here.

Help Shape the Future of SKIP 
Share Your Input by Sept 15

Help shape the future of children’s pain management! Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) invites you to take part in an important survey that will inform two exciting initiatives:

1. A bold new strategic plan to guide SKIP’s future activities
2. An interactive implementation guide to help hospitals action the guidance in the world’s first Pediatric Pain Management health standard.

Take this short survey and be entered to win a SKIP swag prize pack!

Power Over Pain Portal
September Workshops

The Brain's Power over Pain: How Mindfulness can Help 
September 9 at 12:00 p.m. EDT

Understanding and Managing Chronic Pelvic Pain 
September 10 at 12:00 p.m. EDT

Introduction to Pain Reprocessing  Therapy  
September 18 at 2:00 p.m. EDT

Introduction to Somatic Tracking  
September 25 at 2:00 p.m. EDT

Des premiers pas vers l’autocompassion pour la douleur chronique
26 Septembre à 14h00 HAE

2025 Annual Pain Centre Conference -        Advancing pediatric pain care equity: 
Addressing challenges and opportunities in low- and middle-income countries

November 5-6, 2025.

Join global experts for this year's virtual conference to explore practical, culturally informed, and equity-driven strategies to improve children pain care in low- and middle-income countries.

Register here.

Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators (QNJPI) presents PAINtalks

November 13, 2025. 

The Quebec Network of Junior Pain Investigators is proud to present the 10th edition of PAINtalks, an evening of popularized conferences on the theme of pain.

Inspired by the “TED” presentation formula, this is a bilingual hybrid event presented both in-person in Montreal and online, and is free and open to all.

Click Here to Register

Educational  Opportunities

CALiPER - September 8, 2025. 
Critical Appraisal of Literature in Pain Evaluation Rounds.

National Pain Rounds - September 26, 2025.
A discussion between scientists, health professionals, educators, and pain advocates on a myriad of topics related to chronic pain.

Register for free here.

Improving Pain Research Through Knowledge Mobilization and Implementation Science

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2026.

An article collection in the Canadian Journal of Pain, led by Dr. Katie Birnie in partnership with the Chronic Pain Network (CPN) and Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) is seeking submissions.