The mission of Stanford Medicine’s Public Led Opportunity Training (PLOT) is to implement the Everyone Included™ culture of research and innovation in which everyone is trusted and respected for the expertise they bring, where openness and experimentation is the norm, people have personal ownership of health, individual stories have a global impact, and the patient voice and choice is included in all stakeholder decisions.

PLOT will build on this collaboration to train the public and patient community as ambassadors to work with high impact publishers, research professionals and acclaimed clinicians to accelerate co-production. PLOT will offer preparation in grantsmanship, leadership skills, applied research opportunities and collaboration strategies to support good clinical practice, excellence in research methodologies and effective publication strategies. Patient-led teams will be mentored and supported to write their own proposals for quality improvement innovation, patient reported outcome measures and development and testing of patient self-managed interventions.

The PLOT vision is to develop a generation where research co-production is the norm and where patients are fully trained, mentored and funded as research collaborators, co-authors, and co-investigators. In this model patients and members of the public will choose researchers and clinicians to work with and all parties will work according to Everyone Included™ principles.

Grantees through this RFP will be coached and mentored to expertly bring in the patient perspective and experience of real-world interventions for infectious diseases, oncology, vaccines, and internal medicine.

Proposals in response to this RFP should address the following objectives:

• Foster collaboration with expert publishers and institutions to advance and accelerate efforts that provide training, best practices, and tools to support the patient community in research methodologies and publication strategies
• Enable patient advocacy organizations and patients to collaborate with the research community in the design and implementation, analysis, and publication of research to incorporate the patient voice and experience directly
• Increase healthcare provider and researcher understanding and awareness about the role of the patient community in patient-involved research to help ensure pathways for prioritizing and disseminating patient led research

For more program information, see the following link: https://cdn.pfizer.com/pfizercom/2022-10/GMG_2022-HOS-G_SupportingPatientPoweredResearch.pdf?MP8DqEsxZqXWQUF7jw1jJuMWno3rQYlS#page=2

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)

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