Alisha joined the Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) in September 2023. Her role is to support and advise researchers to help build their capacity to engage and involve the public in research.

Alisha draws on twenty years’ experience of supporting public involvement in decision-making in education, research, and health and care services.

Career highlights include:

• putting the voices of children and young people with cancer at the heart of decision-making through the creation of the UK-wide Voice programme at Young Lives vs Cancer.
• Co-developing the Public Involvement in Research Impact Toolkit (PIRIT) with members of the public

Patient and public involvement and engagement ambitions:

To develop partnerships with the public so that diverse views and interests shape research that everyone can benefit from.

Further information:

Find out more about patient and public involvement at CAPC.

Public members sign up to get alerts about research involvement opportunities at CAPC.

For general enquiries, email capc-ppi@bristol.ac.uk.