We’ve launched South Australia’s Pain Research and Innovation Hub to enable the pain community to collaborate to improve care

Our Chron­ic Pain Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work (SCN), in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the South Aus­tralian pain com­mu­ni­ty, recent­ly launched South Aus­trali­a’s Pain Research and Inno­va­tion Hub. 

The Hub is a sim­ple online plat­form that con­nects peo­ple work­ing on pain-relat­ed research and inno­va­tion. It also pro­vides a way to see cur­rent and pre­vi­ous projects, learn about the key issues, the projects oth­ers are try­ing to solve, the expect­ed out­comes and esti­mat­ed timelines. 

The Hub aims to increase col­lab­o­ra­tion, break down silos and reduce dupli­cat­ed effort in pain research and inno­va­tion. This will help to accel­er­ate the dis­cov­ery and devel­op­ment of new and more effec­tive treat­ments for pain, ulti­mate­ly improv­ing the care of peo­ple with pain in South Aus­tralia. It’s open to every­one in South Aus­tralia who is work­ing on, or inter­est­ed in, pain relat­ed research and innovation. 

The Hub was made pos­si­ble thanks to the con­tri­bu­tions of many peo­ple, includ­ing researchers, clin­i­cians, patients, and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers. We would like to thank every­one who has helped to make the Hub a reality. 

For more infor­ma­tion, to con­nect with oth­ers or add your project to the Hub, see South Aus­trali­a’s Pain Research & Inno­va­tion Hub.