Involvement Opportunities

Have you experienced a traumatic brain injury resulting in an inpatient admission for rehabilitation?

This project explores human flourishing in the first 2 years after a traumatic brain injury. Human flourishing is about wellbeing, and we are basing this research on Martin Seligman’s PERMA model: Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Achievement.

Patient falls in hospitals are a big problem. We already know that educating patients about keeping safe in hospital reduces falls. We aim to work with consumers, using their valuable thoughts and experiences to find the best way to deliver hospital education packages.

Virex Pharma is developing a new antiviral drug for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), GlyXine as an inhalation treatment for RSV and other viral respiratory infections. We invite consumers with a lived experience of RSV to join a Consumer Advisory Group to assist Virex Pharma with the development of this new treatment.

Are you living with Parkinson’s disease, do you have motor complications like wearing off or levodopa induced dyskinesia (uncontrolled shakes, tics or tremors), we’d like you to join our research team to bring a lived experience perspective to the project.

Researchers at the Australian National Phenome Centre are looking to form a Consumer Advisory Group (CAG) to provide valuable lived experience input into a research project critical for understanding the fundamental biological processes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease. This research seeks to determine why people are susceptible to Alzheimer’s Disease as they age with the CAG members having ongoing involvement throughout all aspects of the research project.

We seek Consumer Advisory Council members to give a lived experience lens to a research project on eye health using linked population data. This data will allow a comprehensive overview of eye health service use and enable comparison in service usage and outcomes (such as visual field loss, uptake of eye surgery) across different sections of the community.

Researchers at Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research are seeking consumer representatives to participate in projects focused on developing therapies to overcome chemo resistance for ovarian cancer.