Patients & Public
If you are a member of the public interested in supporting women's health research or a researcher looking to access women's perspectives, there are a couple of patient and public involvement groups that were originally founded through the Dame Hilda Lloyd Network but which are now managed independently through staff at University of Birmingham.
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You can find out more about these groups below.
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For queries related to The Hildas PPIE group please contact patientsandpublic@contacts.ac.uk rather than using the dhlnetwork@outlook.com email address, otherwise your messages will not get picked up by the correct team. Similarly, the GO Further group also has it's own contact information which you can find below.
The Hildas
The Hildas is a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Group based in the West Midlands for anyone interested in supporting research into the health of women and girls.
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ARE WE INCLUSIVE?
We welcome women from a wide variety of backgrounds, and are especially keen for women from minority ethnic backgrounds to be a part of The Hildas and Go Further groups. Minority ethnic women are often not as well represented in research as we would like. You can be part of changing this going forwards by working with us to ensure that our research better reflects Birmingham and society as a whole. Your insights and experience will be incredibly important in highlighting what we are doing well and what we can do better to encourage other minority ethnic women to want to participate in research.
We are committed to diversity, equality and inclusivity, so please get in touch with the group(s) of interest if accessibility is an issue as we would like to reduce barriers to your involvement.
A video from our International Weight Management in Pregnancy project, which The Hildas discussed during one of our meetings.
