The US Department of Health and Human Services is hosting the LymeX Roundtable Webinar: Bridging the Trust Gap on April 28.

This roundtable is part of the LymeX Innovation Accelerator (LymeX), a public-private partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation.

According to HHS, this webinar will help create “inclusive strategies for patient-driven research and patient-driven innovation by leveraging emerging technologies and novel research methods for Lyme disease.”

The webinar will provide a history of Lyme innovation, a keynote address from Dr. Kristen Honey, HHS Chief Data Scientist and Senior Advisor, and a series of talks that describe patient-centered approaches to education, innovation, and research.

Among the speakers is LymeDisease.org’s Lorraine Johnson, principal investigator of the MyLymeData project. She will discuss “Why we need patient-partnered research.”

The roundtable will be streamed live via the HHS website, starting Wednesday at Noon EDT. (9 am PDT)

Click here to access it.