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Murray McDonald is a PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town. He holds a Master of Technology degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Interdisciplinary Pain Management from the University of Cape Town. His research focuses on chronic pain and its associations with disability in South Africa. McDonald is affiliated with the Pain Management Unit in the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine within the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town.
In 2026, McDonald served as lead author of the study “Chronic pain is associated with disability: Results from a large population-based survey in South Africa,” published in Pain Reports. The research analyzed data from the 2016 South African Demographic and Health Survey and found that 18.3% of South African adults live with chronic pain, with 27.8% of those individuals experiencing associated disability, particularly in cognition and mobility. He also contributed chapters to the 2024 open-access textbook Understanding Pain: Unravelling the Physiology, Assessment, and Management of Pain through South African Stories, published by UCT Libraries Press.
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