Karen Mooney | Patient and Public Involvement Lay Lead
I understand the need to urge progress in health research, so my initial take on the Driver Programme was about that journey, travelling forward. But for every journey, you need to know where you want to go, be able to finance it, have the authority to travel, be covered by insurance, determine your route, and hopefully have good travel companions.
For the Inflammation and Immunity Driver Programme, clear objectives, financed through Health Data Research UK, have set the destination: “…better understand the fundamental mechanisms of inflammation and immunity to deliver key insights and improve patient care for those affected by inflammation-mediated diseases.” It is one of five programmes designed to “enhance and assemble national scale research-ready data assets, creating data foundations that will enable discoveries using data across the whole population of the UK.”