Course Public and patient involvement in health research

The course P264/07 Patient and public involvement in health research is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, fall 2025.

Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Requirements for participation: Conducting or considering a project using patient and public involvement in health research

Aim: To introduce the concept of patient and public involvement in health research and acquire participants a science- and theory-based understanding of patient and public involvement in health research. The course will increase the participants’ ability to identify and increase the value of patient and public involvement in health research by suggesting how patient and public involvement in health research could optimally be a part of their own study and which implications would be important for practice.

Learning outcomes: 

• Summarise the theory and practice of patient and public involvement in health research in the research cycle
• Assess different approaches of patient and public involvement in health research relevance and applicability in various study designs
• Take an analytical and critical view on the processes and potential outcomes of patient and public involvement in health research
• Plan, apply, and evaluate patient and public involvement in health research in own study

Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 69 hours

Content: The course will provide a key overview of current trends and impacts of patient and public involvement in health research. The theory and practice of patient and public involvement in health research will be addressed based on elements in the research cycle: identifying and prioritising, commissioning, designing and managing, undertaking, disseminating, implementing and evaluating impact. The course introduces different approaches to patient and public involvement in health research: consultation, collaboration and user controlled research and will discuss how these approaches can be applied at each stage of the research cycle.

Instructors: Jeanette Finderup, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University; Annesofie Lunde Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University; Lotte Ørneborg Rodkjær, Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University; Pernille Skovlund, PhD, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University

Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus

Participation in the course is without cost for:

• PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
• PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
• PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses

Course dates:

• 25 November 2025 10:00 - 16:00
• 01 December 2025 10:00 - 16:00
• 02 December 2025 10:00 - 16:00