Urban normativity and its impact on pain-management research, policy and rural health

Sophie Shephard talks about how urban/metro normativity can create issues in rural health from a pain-management research and policy perspective. Recorded at the 2025 Australian Pain Society conference, April 13-16, at the Pullman Hotel Albert Park. Sophie Shephard MACP is an APA titled Pain Physiotherapist with a passion for persistent-pain management and research interests including psychologically informed practice and suicide prevention, and novel opportunities to improve pain care and research translation through interprofessional collaboration.