Amiculum meets Ashifa Trivedi: what does meaningful partnership with children and young people in healthcare really look like?

In this ‘Amiculum meets’ conversation, Sarah Mohamad, healthcare strategy consultant at Amiculum, speaks with Ashifa Trivedi, a specialist paediatric pharmacist focused on improving how children and young people are supported as they move from paediatric to adult care.

The conversation builds on the poster that Sarah and Ashifa presented at the ISMPP European Conference in January 2026 on involving children and young people in research and publication development. You can explore this work further in our recent blog, From ‘why’ to ‘how’: patient partnership across age groups in research and publications.

Together, Sarah and Ashifa explore why involving children and young people early, not just as participants but as partners and co‑authors, leads to better research questions and more relevant outcomes. They also discuss the practical realities of doing this well, including consent and assent, ethics and governance, age‑appropriate communication, and the trust and flexibility required to support meaningful involvement.

The conversation moves the discussion from principle to practice, challenging the assumption that involving children and young people is too complex and highlighting what’s possible when personal experience is genuinely embedded.