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We are pleased to announce the upcoming CAnD3 Keynote Address, the culminating event of our 2024-2025 Training Program. This hybrid event, hosted annually at the 91社区 Faculty Club, featuring Professor聽聽from the University of Western Ontario,听will bring together Dragon's Den finalists, CAnD3 alumni, institutional partners, and current Fellows. It commemorates聽the achievements of our six consecutive cohorts (2020-2025) and introduces the incoming 2025/2026 Fellows.

This year, we are honoured to be having esteemed from the University of Western Ontario as a keynote speaker. With her research focus on chronic pain, Prof. Zajacova will examine how chronic pain affects millions but remains poorly understood both in the public imagination and in population science. This talk will take a population perspective on how pain is defined, measured, and distributed鈥攔evealing striking social inequalities, surprising measurement challenges, and emerging insights from new experimental data. The discussion will also touch on policy implications, including the opioid crisis and health care responses.

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Door opens at 10:00 AM.

10:00 - 10:30 | Public Registration with Coffee

10:30 - 11:50聽| Keynote Lecture by Prof. Zajacova and Q&A

11:50 - 12:00聽| Rapid fire introduction of posters

12:00 -13:30 | Lunch & poster session 1

13:30 - 14:30聽| Dragons' Den Finals聽

14:30 - 14:50 | Coffee break

14:50 - 15:50 |聽Dragons' Den Finals

15:50 - 16:20 | Coffee break with poster session 2聽

16:20 - 16:50聽| Partners & Fellows Showcase & Q&A

16:50 - 17:15聽| Announcement of Dragons' Den Winners & Closing Remarks

17:15 - 18:45 | Cocktail mixer

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This is a hybrid event (In-person registration closed). The online portion of the event will be held on Zoom, and the in-person portion will be held at the聽Faculty Club聽(3450 McTavish Street) at 91社区 in Montreal, Canada. In-person capacity is limited. If you registered to attend in-person and can no longer join us, please notify us at聽cand3 [at] mcgill.ca.

About the Speaker

Anna Zajacova

聽is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. Her research examines chronic pain, focusing on its social determinants and consequences, and disparities among Canadian and U.S. adults. Since earning a PhD in Demography and Sociology from Princeton University, she has published over 90 studies in leading journals such as聽PAIN,听The Journal of Pain,聽and Demography. Her work, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, explores how pain fits into broader population health patterns.