Children's Palliative Care (CPC) Leadership Programme
Julia Downing
GPON Steering Committee member
Chief Executive International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN)
Rima Saad
Program coordinator
Department of Global Pediatric Medicine
Global Palliative Care Program
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Today 21 health care professionals from Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka participated in the Children’s Palliative Care (CPC) Leadership Programme in Hyderabad, India, Graduation Workshop.
The CPC Leadership Programme was developed due to the need for an innovative programme leveraging virtual solutions to provide global mentorship, transforming CPC in South and Southeast Asia. Participants include nurses, doctors, social workers and programme managers.
The Workshop was conducted by Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration (https://twoworldscancer.ca/) in partnership with ICPCN (https://icpcn.org/), Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society (https://palliativecarepartners.in/), Hyderabad Centre for Palliative Care, St Jude Global Palliative Care (https://global.stjude.org/en-us/programs/transversal-programs/palliative-care.html), Canuck Place Children’s Hospice (https://www.canuckplace.org/), Stanford Medicine Childrens Health (https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/services/palliative-care.html), Cipla Foundation (https://www.cipla.com/csr/cipla-foundation/), Global Treehouse Foundation (https://www.globaltreehouse.foundation/), Project ECHO (https://projectecho.unm.edu/).
