Edited by Julian Abel, Director, Compassionate Communities, UK, and Allan Kellehear, Clinical Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Vermont, USA
Dr Julian Abel became a consultant in palliative care in 2001. He was the chair of the organising committee for the 4th International Public Health and Palliative Care Conference in 2015 and was Vice President of Public Health Palliative Care International. Since 2016 he has worked with Frome Medical Practice in Somerset in developing a new model of primary care combined with compassionate communities. He is co-author of The Compassion Project which describes the background to the Frome Project and the implications of compassion in medicine and in society at large. Along with Dr Kellehear and Dr Catherine Millington Sanders he formed Compassionate Communities UK, of which he is Director. The charity has been formed to develop broader roll-out of compassionate communities in both primary care and end of life care. Dr Abel also runs a podcast, Survival of the Kindest, about compassion and its absence.
Dr Allan Kellehear is Clinical Professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Vermont, USA. He was formerly 50th Anniversary Professor (End of Life Care) at the University of Bradford in the UK. He has previously held chairs in social sciences, public health, or palliative care at Middlesex, Bath, Tokyo, and La Trobe Universities. He has held honorary professorships in Austria, Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, Japan, United Kingdom, and the USA. He is internationally acknowledged to be the leading academic proponent of health-promoting palliative care and the compassionate communities/cities movement.
Julian Abel, Director, Compassionate Communities UK, St Martin, Cornwall, UK
Nikki Archer, Supportive Care Director, St Giles Hospice UK
Samar Aoun, Professor of Palliative Care Research, Public Health Palliative Care Unit, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Australia
Luc Deliens, Professor of Palliative Care Research, Director of the End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium
Pati Dzotsenidze, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Georgian National University, Georgia
Polly Edmonds, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Palliative Care Team, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Silvia Librada Flores, Compassionate Community Program Director & Innovation and Research Manager in Palliative Care and Compassionate Communities. New Health Foundation, Seville, Spain
Andrea Grindrod, Projects Manager and Research Fellow, Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Australia
Mark A Hazelwood, Chief Executive, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care, Edinburgh, UK
Debbie Horsfall, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia
Emma Hodges, Chief Executive Officer, St Giles Hospice, UK
Mary Hodgson Community Action Lead at St Christopher's Hospice, London, UK
Aliki Karapliagkou, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bradford, UK
Allan Kellehear, Clinical Professor, Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Helen Kingston, General Practitioner, Frome Medical Practice, UK
Suresh Kumar, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Community Participation in Palliative Care and Long Term Care, Institute of Palliative Medicine, India
Philip J Larkin, Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Chair of Palliative Care Nursing, Palliative and Supportive Care Service, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Rosemary Leonard, Professor of Social Capital and Sustainability, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia
Dan Malleck, Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Brock University, Canada
Emilio Herrera Molina, President of NewHealth Foundation, Seville, Spain; Global Chief Health Officer of Keralty (gCHO) & President of Keralty Foundation, Miami, USA
Charles Normand, Professor of the Economics of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, UK; Professor Emeritus, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Kerrie Noonan, Director, Death Literacy Institute; and Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Australia
Denise Marshall, Professor, Palliative Medicine, Division of Palliative Care, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Kathy Kortes Miller, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Associate Director, Centre for Education and Research in Aging and Health (CERAH), Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Jason Mills, Senior Lecturer, Curriculum Leader, Faculty of Health & Education, Torrens University, Australia
Shyla Mills, Executive Officer, Palliative Care Queensland, Australia
Manjula Patel Chief Executive, Murray Hall Trust, Sandwell, UK
Rebecca M Patterson, Director of Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief., Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care, Edinburgh, UK
Sally Paul, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Katherine Pettus, Advocacy Officer, International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, USA
Holly Prince, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation 2019 Scholar, Project Manager, Centre for Education and Research on Aging & Health, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Jairam Kamala Ramakrishnan, Honorary Consultant in Public Health & Liaison Psychiatry, Institute of Palliative Medicine, India; Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Heather Richardson, Joint CEO, St Christopher's Hospice, London, UK; Honorary Professor in Palliative Care, Lancaster University, UK
John P. Rosenberg, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Bruce Rumbold, Associate Professor, Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Libby Sallnow, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer and Palliative Medicine Consultant, St Christopher's Hospice and Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, University College London UK
Catherine Millington Sanders, Kingston CCG EOLC Clinical Lead, South West London Sustainability Transformation Plan EOLC Clinical Lead. Difficult Conversations Co-Founder and National Clinical Lead, RCGP / Marie Curie National Clinical End of Life Care Champion, RCGP / Marie Curie Daffodil Standards, UK
Joseph Sawyer, Academic Clinical Fellow in Palliative Medicine, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, University College London, UK
Mark Spreckley, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Health & Social Care, London South Bank University, London, UK
Kelli I. Stajduhar, Professor, School of Nursing, Research Fellow, Institute of Aging and Lifelong Health, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Bonnie Tompkins, Compassionate Communities National Lead, Pallium Canada, Canada
Steven Vanderstichelen, Senior Researcher, Co-ordinator of the Compassionate Communities Centre of Expertise, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Julia Verne, Head of Clinical Epidemiology, Clinical Lead for Palliative and End of Life Care, Public Health England, UK
Gail Wilson, Deputy Clinical Director, St Luke's Hospice, Plymouth, UK
