About the group

Young Adult Patient and Public Involvement Group (YAPPI) is based at Southampton General Hospital and meets roughly every 1-2 months to discuss various health research topics and to work on specific projects.

Meetings tend to fall on weeknight evenings and the date is selected based on group member availability.

YAPPI is a collaboration between the NIHR Research Design Service South Central and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

Recent activities include:

• Helping deliver a public outreach event – a play screening followed by a public debate.
• Presentations to researchers at training events.
• Presentation of poster at INVOLVE national conference.

Current activities:

• Ongoing meetings with researchers to discuss research proposals and active projects.
• Designing and producing short videos to publicise the group to new members on social media and within schools.

Latest from Young Adult Patient and Public Involvement Group (YAPPI)

GOSH YPAG and UCL Division of Psychiatry: Children and Young People’s Mental Health Module, UCL MSc in Mental Health Sciences: A Sustained Youth Involvement Model

Working together teaching postgraduate students how to carry out research with young people since February 2020! Read on to for a combined Blog from three of this year’s GOSH YPAG member attendees as they reflect on their annual visit in February 2026 to work with over 30 students Thank you to Aleena Lu’Lu, Betty and […]

GOSH YPAG member Teo takes over twitter at the NIHR GOSH BRC Family Fun Day for research 2019

A big thank you to GOSH YPAG member Teo who hosted @ GreatOrmondSt Twitter account, to give  visitors the inside scoop of the day’s activites at this year’s NIHR GOSH BRC Family Fun Day for research on 26 October 2019. Teo is a dedicated YPAG member and has been involved in lots of other activities to represent […]