Make Your Impact
What can you do to make a difference for pain research and care right now? Explore our advocacy page for opportunities to make your impact!
Where do I even start?
Watch these videos to learn how you can advocate for pain research.
Models, Tools, and Templates for Advocacy
USASP One-Pager
A one-page description about chronic pain as a public health crisis and why research funding is important
USASP Letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee
Example coalition letter to members of the Labor-HHS Subcommittee
NIH Cuts by County
Sinclair et al., 2025 analyzed how NIH cuts to indirect costs impact each county
Request for Information
Government request for public input
Key NIH Pain Research Data
Statistics related to pain prevalence and NIH resources to address pain
Why I Got Involved
Op-Eds by USASP Members
What's Lost if We 'Play the Game' to Get Research Funding? — Our journey to understand and treat childhood pain in a new reality
Sarah Nelson, PhD, and Natoshia R. Cunningham, PhD
May, 2025
What Medicaid Cuts Mean for Chronic Pain
Monica L. Gremillion, PhD, Jacqueline N. Warner, PhD, and Jocelyn Gomez, PsyD
May, 2025
Trump is cutting research that helps Americans deal with severe pain
Juan M. Hincapie-Castillo
April, 2025
Science Under Threat in the United States: The NIH is a sound investment for the US taxpayer
March, 2025
Our Advocacy Database
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November, 2025
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