Title: Patient and public involvement in health research: Learning and examples from more than a decade of practice

Abstract: Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in research is now a well-established meta-method that should be integrated in all health and social care research. Trends in PPIE have changed since it was first popularised by the organisation formerly known as INVOLVE, recently cancelled as the Maximising Impact of Public Partnerships team, and the landscape surrounding good quality PPIE in research is complex. Drawing on examples from more than a decade of practice (professionally and, in more recent years, a patient contributor herself), Erin will cover recent developments in PPIE, share key learnings about best practice, and what not to do.

Speaker Biography: 

Erin Walker is the public involvement lead in the Helix Centre, part of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London. Erin has a PhD in health psychology and has worked for 13 years in patient and public involvement in research, innovation, and health services. Before the IGHI, she was at Evelina London, UCLPartners, the NIHR University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital BRC. She has been a co-investigator on 7 NIHR studies as lead for patient and public involvement. She has a keen interest in involving a diverse range of patients, service users, families and end recipients of research and innovation in that work which is meant to serve them.

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