Global Palliative Care Program

Mission

The MGH Global Palliative Care Program fosters bi-directional, collaborative partnerships rooted in a shared vision of global equity, with the goal of expanding access to palliative care around the world through the creation of innovative and culturally adapted education programs, research initiatives, clinical services, and community collaboratives.

Vision

Together with our global partners, the MGH Global Palliative Care Program seeks to realize the human right of universal access to palliative care services around the world, focusing on the patients and populations most in need.

• Drs. Daubman and Stoltenberg receiving the Harvard Medical Dean’s Community Service Award for their work advancing palliative care in Jamaica
  
• Dr. Kane presenting at Jasmine Palliative Care and Hospice, Cayman Islands.
  
• Drs. Daubman and Stoltenberg with their co-instructors Dr. Pedro Perez and Caroline Jana teaching an advanced diploma course in palliative care in Santiago, Chile.
  
• Palliative Care in the Americas

Program Directors

Executive Committee

Senior Advisor

• Diploma in palliative care communication, education and practice at the Universidad Catolica, Santiago Chile
• PAHO: Virtual Course on Fundamentals of Palliative Care
• Project ECHO
  • Palliative Care in the Caribbean
  • Palliative Care in Latin America
• Advancing Palliative Care in Northern Plains American Indians
• Global Palliative Education Collaborative (GPEC) – website coming soon

Recent Publications

• “You Can’t Record That!” Engaging American Indian Traditional Healers in Qualitative Research
• “Calling the Spirit Back:” Spiritual Needs Among Great Plains American Indians
• Factors Influencing Palliative Care Access and Delivery for Great Plains American Indians
• Project ECHO in the Caribbean: Building a Virtual Community for Palliative Care Education Needs
• Analyzing the Unique Needs of International Palliative Care Learners Attending a United States-Based Palliative Care Education and Practice Course.
• Implementing Palliative Care Training in the Caribbean: Development and Assessment of a Basic Palliative Care Training Course in Jamaica.
• Palliative Medicine Specialization in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis.
• Recognizing Moral Distress in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons From Global Disaster Response.
• Global Palliative Care Education in the Time of COVID-19.
• The central role of provider training in implementing resource-stratified guidelines for palliative care in low-income and middle-income countries: Lessons from the Jamaica Cancer Care and Research Institute in the Caribbean and Universidad Católica in Latin America.

Recent Presentations

• Latin America Palliative Care Association International Congress (San Jose, Costa Rica)
  • Precongress Workshop: Emerging Palliative Care Leaders of Latin America
  • Plenary Session: Strategies of the Pan American Health Organization to improve access to opioids in Latin America
  • Workshop Session: Communication Basics in Palliative Care
• Jasmine Palliative Care and Hospice Conference, Cayman Islands
  • Plenary on Beyond End-of-Life Care: Palliative Care as a Pathway to Optimizing Chronic Serious Illness Care
• American Academy of Hospital and Palliative Medicie Annual Assembly
  • Development of a “Wawokiya” Palliative Care Community Health Worker Training Program for Great Plains American Indians with Cancer
  • A Practical Framework for Serious Illness Communication Developed in a Mistrust Pressure Cooker: Lessons from a COVID Intensive Care Unit in Brazil

Please reach out to Program Manager Keri Sullivan with any questions.