Rachel Horne is a journalist with MS. She has written about the disease from a patient's point of view for The BMJ, Nature Reviews Neurology, Annals of Neurology and the MS-Blog.

She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and is co-chair of the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Group for the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Dementia and Neurodegeneration at QMUL launched in 2024.

She is also founder of the Rachel Horne Prize for Women's Research in MS, an international annual award of US$40,000 which recognises a woman scientist for their outstanding contribution to women's health-related research in MS.

Rachel started her journalistic career in China and covered the Tiananmen Square demonstrations and massacre. She later worked as a financial news producer for CNN in London. Her writing has appeared in the Financial Times, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal.