Interested or involved in medical research and clinical trials as a patient/carer/consumer rep? Are you a researcher or organisation involving people (or wanting to) in your research? Research4Me is committed building a community interested, engaged and supported to get involved (or involve people) in research. We bring people together...
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What Involving People in Research Can Look Like
Interested or involved in medical research and clinical trials as a patient/carer/consumer rep? Are you a researcher or organisation involving people (or wanting to) in your research? Research4Me is committed building a community interested, engaged and supported to get involved (or involve people) in research. We bring people together...
Carol Vleeskens – Insights from a consumer involved in musculoskeletal research
In June, we had the opportunity to attend the Health Beyond Research and Innovation Showcase for South-West Sydney. In the afternoon, one of the sessions was focussed on consumer involvement in medical research. Carol Vleeskens, Convenor of the Consumer Community Council (CCC) for the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education,...
Research Case Study: The ENDIA study – consumer engagement in practice – Part 2
Recently, we spoke with Kelly (part of the research team) and Bill (a dad with type 1 diabetes) about consumer engagement in the ENDIA study, Australia’s largest study into the cause of type 1 diabetes, as a path to improve study recruitment, engagement and retention. In Part 1 of this...
Reina’s Top 7 Reasons Why Clinical Trials Matter
Our founder first crossed paths with Reina S. Weiner a couple of years ago, and interviewed her for the #WhyClinicalTrialsMatters campaign she started before founding Research4Me. You can catch up on that interview here where Reina shares why you need to either ask about clinical trials, or potentially miss...
PExS2018 Part 3(Final): Getting Patients & Researchers Working Together
In the 3rd and final wrap of the workshop we held at the NSW Patient Experience Symposium (#PExS2018), we cover what Anthony Brown, Executive Director of Health Consumers NSW (HCNSW) shared in his overview of HCNSW, their interest in research, and getting researchers and patients working together, based on the...
Launching #TrialsTues – Regularly Demystifying Clinical Trials
Today we are launching #TrialsTues to shine a spotlight on and encourage involvement in clinical trials on an ongoing basis. In 2005, ECRIN launched International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD), 20th May, to commemorate the day when James Lind started his famous clinical trial on scurvy in 1747, May 20th, and...