Acknowledgements and authorship
Edited by:
Stephen R. Connor, PhD, Senior Fellow to the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA). Maria Cecilia Sepulveda Bermedo, MD, Senior Adviser Cancer Control, Chronic Diseases Prevention and Management, Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion, World Health Organization.
The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy or views of the World Health Organization.
This publication was supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations’ International Palliative Care Initiative. Special thanks to Mary Callaway and Dr Kathleen Foley.
Contributing writers:
Sharon Baxter, MSW, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, Canada
Samira K. Beckwith, ACSW, LCSW, FACHE, Hope Hospice, Ft Myers, FL, USA
David Clark, PhD – University of Glasgow, Scotland
James Cleary, MD – Pain and Policies Study Group, Madison, WI, USA
Dennis Falzon, MD – WHO Global TB Program, WHO Geneva
Philippe Glaziou, MD, MPhil, Dip Stat – WHO Global TB Program, WHO Geneva
Peter Holliday, St. Giles Hospice, Litchfield, England
Ernesto Jaramillo, MD – WHO Global TB Program, WHO Geneva
Eric L. Krakauer, MD, PhD – Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, Boston, MA, USA
Suresh Kumar, MD – Neighborhood Network in Palliative Care, Kerala, India
Diederik Lohman – Human Rights Watch, New York, USA
Thomas Lynch, PhD – International Observatory for End of Life Care, Lancaster, England
Paul Z. Mmbando (MBChB, MPH, DrH) Evangelical Lutheran Church, Arusha, Tanzania
Claire Morris, Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance, London, England
Daniela Mosoiu, MD – Hospice Casa Sperantei, Brasov, Romania
Fliss Murtagh FRCP PhD MRCGP, Cicely Saunders Institute, Kings College London
Roberto Wenk, MD – Programa Argentino de Medicina Paliativa Fundación, Argentina
In addition, the editors would like to thank the following:
All WHO collaborating centres on palliative care (see appendix for details)
Ricardo X. Martinez, PhD, statistics and mapping consultant
Laura van Buul, WHO Intern; Lutien Bakker, WHO Intern
Julie Torode, Union for International Cancer Control, Geneva
EAPC Atlas of Palliative Care in Europe Task Force.
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(WPCA) is a global action network focusing exclusively on hospice and palliative care development worldwide. Its members are national and regional hospice and palliative care organisations and affiliate organisations supporting hospice and palliative care.
WPCA Board
David Praill, co-Chair, Help the Hospices, the United Kingdom
Cynthia Goh, MD, co-Chair, Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network, Singapore
Zipporah Ali MD, Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association
Sharon Baxter, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, Canada
Jorge Eisenschlas, MD, Asociación Latinoamericana de Cuidados Paliativos, Argentina
Liz Gwyther, MD, Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa
Ednin Hamzah, MD, Hospis Malaysia
Yvonne Luxford, PhD, Palliative Care Australia
Emmanuel Luyirika MD, African Palliative Care Association, Uganda
Joan Marston, RN, International Children’s Palliative Care Network, South Africa
Anil Paleri, MD, Indian Association of Palliative Care
Sheila Payne, PhD, European Association of Palliative Care, the United Kingdom
Don Schumacher, PsyD, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, USA
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