Patients & Families
We collaborate with patients and families to direct our funding toward the areas of greatest need and highest impact.
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From listening to action: Incorporating patient perspectives
Patient and Family Advisory Committee
Our Patient and Family Advisory Committee (PFAC) plays a vital role in steering our childhood cancer research and innovation activities and decisions.
The PFAC offers advice on the areas of greatest need from a patient's perspective and helps guide grant funding decisions, ensuring that the patient is always considered in the research — now and in the future.
As part of our comprehensive and inclusive funding model, PFAC members assess a specially designed patient-focused section of grant applications. Their review ensures that research proposals consider the best interests of patients and their families, while also having the potential to achieve real-world transformative results for young cancer patients.
Coupled with expert review from our Scientific Advisory Committees, we fund only the best collaborative projects aimed at improving patient experiences, quality of life, and outcomes.
Sharing the lived cancer experience
The PFAC includes members who have either experienced cancer as a child or are parents of children who have had cancer. The committee meets at least four times a year and participates in Children’s Cancer CoLab events and activities.
The committee members volunteer their time to support our work on childhood cancer. Their incredibly generous contributions are helping to improve outcomes for childhood cancer in Australia and globally.
Patients & Families
We engage with patients and families to help guide our funding to the areas of greatest need so that the projects we support will have a real-world impact.
Our Experts
Uniting the brightest minds to accelerate childhood cancer research and innovation.
More ways you can make an impact
Your support drives critical research and innovation that will change lives. By supporting Children's Cancer CoLab, you become part of a community working to ensure every young patient with cancer survives and thrives. Our approach unites top researchers across disciplines and institutions, breaking traditional barriers to accelerate discoveries from the lab to clinic, creating real impact for young cancer patients and their families.
