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What is PPIE? (infographics)

Illustrated infographic explaining Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in health research. The graphic shows that people can contribute to research by sharing their experiences, skills, ideas, and feedback, or by taking part in studies. It highlights the importance of lived experience, asking questions, sharing ideas, and working alongside researchers to shape research. Key messages include improving healthcare research one voice at a time, influencing decisions and policy, rebuilding trust and awareness, and ensuring research focuses on what matters most to patients and communities. The graphic also emphasises that anyone can get involved, with training and support available.
Illustrated graphic recording titled “What is Health Research?” created for King’s College London. The image explains that health research is for everyone, values individual uniqueness, and aims to understand what is happening now and find ways to improve health and healthcare. Drawings show innovative solutions, medicines, laboratories, surveys, focus groups, shared stories, and lived experience informing research. Key messages highlight the need for clear information, learning from people with lived experience, overcoming mistrust in research, and improving treatments for different ethnic minority groups. Arrows connect ideas around a central researcher figure surrounded by research tools and question marks.

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