I can start.
I think there are a couple of important things the centre has done.
One, it has funded studies specifically about sex and gender, and about how they affect chronic pain. That's been an important thing.
Two, in the evidence synthesis that we've done, we've mandated that sex and gender be considered when we look at the literature. Sadly, one of the first studies we did was to try to look at whether there were different outcomes for multidisciplinary pain treatment for men and women veterans, and we found that none of the studies had actually separated the data for the men and the women. Therefore, we don't know because researchers haven't been reporting that.
As we go forward, one of the things we're mandating is that researchers always report their data for the men and the women separately so we can tell if there are different treatment outcomes for different sexes and genders.
The third thing the centre does is to have very active engagement of people with lived experience in all of the research projects. For example, on the project that I talked to you about, there is a co-author on that paper who is a woman veteran. She has a lived experience of sexual assault and was very engaged in the project at every stage. We're getting, as you see, the valuable experiences that people have to share. It's important that those be part of the research process.
Those are the things I've noticed. I'll ask Dr. Zacharias again, because he can speak from a centre perspective, but in my experiences as a researcher, that's what I've seen.