Emerge Australia is excited to announce that our Research Director, Simone Eyssens, has been appointed to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) ME/CFS Guideline Development Committee. Australia’s clinical ME/CFS guidelines are over 20 years old. This committee is the culmination of more than 10 years of advocacy efforts by many in our community.
Simone lives with severe ME/CFS and has been involved with ME/CFS advocacy since 2015. We are confident that Simone will represent the needs and concerns of the ME/CFS community in this process and are proud to support her in this work. You can read more about Simone here.
Our CEO, Anne Wilson, has been a member of the Guideline Steering Committee, which oversaw the scope and process for developing the guidelines. Emerge Australia looks forward to supporting development of the clinical guidelines and facilitating community involvement through the public consultation process.
Thank you to Health and Aged Care Minister Mark Butler for awarding $1.13 million to NHMRC to fund the development of the guidelines.
We look forward to reading the first draft in 2026.
