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Special Lecture April 15: Chronic Pain as a Population Health Priority in an Aging Society - Anna Zajacova, PhD, University of Western Ontario

Apr 9, 2026, 11:41 AM by SCOA

A Special Lecture sponsored by the Sealy Center on Aging and the Department of Epidemiology 

Chronic Pain as a Population Health Priority in an Aging Society

Presented by: Anna Zajacova, PhD

Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Time: 1:30-2:30PM

Location: RSH 6.100 & Teams, Lunch provided for those in person

Microsoft Teams meeting

Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/21739702970313?p=jqXUmtBabaIoS4udut

Meeting ID: 217 397 029 703 13

Passcode: 6i2Gb3mk

Please RSVP: Contact Elizabeth Huber at elhuber@utmb.edu or (409) 747-0008

Anna Zajacova is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. Trained as a demographer and sociologist at Princeton University, she studies chronic pain as a population phenomenon, asking how social conditions shape its distribution in the US and Canada. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals including PAIN, Demography, and the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. Her work, supported by the NIH and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, positions chronic pain as a critical dimension of population health.