The Public Advisory Panel provides recommendations, ideas, and feedback to the DDEA Secretariat on strategy for connecting early-career researchers with society through education, networking activities, and funding and communication activities.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Contribute to the establishment of events that bridge the gap between citizens, individuals, and relatives living with diabetes and other classical endocrine diseases in their everyday lives and early-career researchers studying these diseases.

• Provide suggestions on how public and user involvement in selected DDEA education and networking activities can create value for early-career researchers, citizens, and individuals and relatives living with diabetes and other classical endocrine diseases.

• Provide suggestions on how to organize a post-2027 Academy that ensures public and user involvement in world-class research.

Composition and Appointment

The DDEA Public Advisory Panel consists of up to 10 members with the following characteristics and competencies:

• Experience of living with, or being a relative of a person with one or more chronic diseases, including diabetes and/or other endocrine diseases, as well as co-morbidities.

• Experience with strategic planning and organisational development, and establishing collaborations, networks, and partnerships across sectors, including with NGOs.

• Experience with knowledge sharing and the use of social media in a professional context.

All members of the Public Advisory Board are appointed by the DDEA Secretariat. The board is appointed for a period of up to 18 months. If a member steps down before the end of their term, a new member will be appointed.

Further information can be found in the Terms of Reference for DDEA Public Advisory Panel.