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Building rare disease research around your voice
Join us in our global mission to gather your research priorities for the future
Join us in our global mission to gather your research priorities for the future

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People living with rare diseases often face long waits for diagnosis, gaps in support, and research that doesn’t always reflect the realities of daily life. Many important questions about getting a diagnosis, accessing care, managing symptoms, quality of life, and future planning still go unanswered.
The Rare Disease Priority Setting Partnership, led by the James Lind Alliance, is working to change this by asking people around the world who are impacted by rare diseases what research should focus on.
Your experience and voice can highlight where things are overlooked, whether that’s getting a diagnosis, finding the right services, managing symptoms, or thinking about the future.
What you share will help inform research priorities that truly reflect the challenges people face.
We’re inviting everyone connected to rare diseases, including people living with a condition, families, carers, advocates, and professionals, to take part in the survey.
Your answers will help inform the rare disease research priorities that guide funders and researchers to make sure the questions that matter most to you are heard.
Join us and discover what we can do for you.
If you have a rare disease, or someone close to you does, you probably know that a lot of things can feel really hard: waiting a long time to find out what is going on, explaining it to people who do not get it, missing out on things, or worrying about what comes next.
A rare disease is a health condition that not many people have. There are thousands of different ones, and they affect people in all sorts of ways.
We are a group called the James Lind Alliance, and we are asking young people around the world: What do you think doctors and researchers should be trying to fix or understand better about rare diseases?
Right now, most research is decided by adults who may never have experienced what you go through. We want to change that. Your ideas and experiences matter, and they could help decide what gets studied next.
Join us and discover what we can do for you.
The James Lind Alliance (JLA) is a non-profit making initiative bringing patients, carers and clinicians together in JLA Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs). JLA PSPs identify and prioritise unanswered questions that they agree are the most important, so that researchers and funders are aware of the issues that matter most to the people who need to use the research in their everyday lives.
Our team is made up of dedicated professionals who are passionate about making a difference in the lives of those we serve. From Steering group members to charity, industry and clinical partners, we aim to work together to ensure your voice is heard and the centre of Rare Disease Research.

We believe that your information is your information alone, and you have the responsibility to share it when you feel it's important. We will always protect your responses and only use them for the purpose of this project.
We will not share your information with anyone.
Our Protocol and terms of reference can be found here



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