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Consumer and Community Involvement
Monash Partners fully supports the involvement of health consumers and the community in health and medical research and health care improvement.
Consumer and community involvement is the active partnership with patients, carers, and members of the public to shape health research and healthcare delivery. Rather than being subjects of research or passive recipients of care, consumers are valued for their lived experience – helping to set priorities, design studies, communicate findings, and ensure that healthcare solutions reflect real-world needs.
Consumer and community involvement brings a unique perspective to all areas of research and healthcare improvement including planning, policy, funding, evaluation and reporting. Extensive research in Australia and internationally provides compelling evidence that the involvement of consumers in health research confers many benefits.
These benefits are recognised across the world by governments, research bodies and health organisations that are fostering involvement of consumers through legislation, policies and financial investment.
Consumer Involvement:
- Increases the relevance and responsiveness of research to health needs.
- Improves the quality of research and its impact on health outcomes.
- Strengthens the effective translation of research into policy and practice.
- Builds public confidence in health and medical research.
- Increases opportunities for research funding.
View our Consumer and Community Involvement Education and Training here.
Our aims and priorities are to:
Our Consumer and Community Involvement Advisory Committee brings together health care providers, managers and researchers across Monash Partners. They include:
News and Resources
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