Shradhdha Shah

Clinician · Medical Anthropologist · Essayist

Research & PPI

Research & Patient & Public Involvement

Research should begin with questions that matter to the people being studied.

Method

What PPI is

Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) is a methodology through which patients contribute to the questions that shape clinical research.

Rather than treating patients simply as subjects of research, PPI creates a role for them in asking what should be studied and which questions are most relevant to their lives.

Research & Collaboration

From clinical practice toward medical anthropology, qualitative research and PPI

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Argument

Why PPI matters

When patients help shape the questions being asked, research can begin from the realities of people’s lives rather than assumptions about them.

The result can be questions that are more relevant, more useful and more meaningful when studied at scale.