A toolkit to aid scientists and people with MS work together

A new toolkit developed by The Australian National University (ANU), with the funding support of an MS Research Australia Incubator Grant, will help researchers and people living with multiple sclerosis (MS) to work together. The MS Toolkit contains a research participation framework and filmed conversations between researchers and people with MS. The toolkit is designed to assist researchers and people living with MS in knowing how they can best collaborate together in research. The Toolkit is part of a larger research collaboration between MS Research Australia and an ANU Project focusing on personalised medicine called Our Health in Our Hands. The project involves physicists, engineers, scientists, doctors and sociologists in a cross-discipline approach to understanding diseases. Professor Christine Phillips (AM), an Associate Dean at the ANU College of Health and Medicine is one of the lead investigators for the project. This year Professor Phillips was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia for her significant service to medical education, migrant and refugee health, and to medicine.