Rachel Horne

Journalist, Honorary Research Fellow & Founder of the Rachel Horne Prize for Women's Research in MS


Co-Chair PPI Policy Research Unit -
Dementia & Neurodegeneration Policy Research Unit (DeNPRU)



January 2024-2027


I am co-chair of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in a new government funded policy research unit based at Queen Mary University, London which aims to improve research on prevention, diagnosis and treatment and care services in England.



Women and MS/Shift.MS Panel Discussion
ECTRIMS/ACTRIMS Conference



​Milan 2023


I designed and chaired a discussion of the specific health challenges women with MS face - such as family planning, pregnancy and menopause - while also managing the disease.





Panel from left:
Birgit Bauer, MS patient & advocate; Rachel Horne, Panel Chair;
Prof Ruth Dobson, world-renowned MS expert; Roberta Motta, MS Nurse; and Roberta Incardona who lives with MS



AttackMS Study -
PPI for the Trial Management Group



2021-2024


For three years, I represented the patient voice in a multi-centred study aiming to see if starting highly-effective disease modifying treatment very early on people who present with symptoms of MS helps protect brain tissue.




Discussing the AttackMS trial with Professor Klaus Schmierer for the Neurology Academy





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