Optimizing the Global Palliative Nursing Workforce to Alleviate Serious Health-Related Suffering

Thursday, December 15, 2022, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Online


This bi-monthly webinar series is a collaborative venture between the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Supportive Care Service, University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, and the International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care. Through this international endeavor that emerged from the Lancet Commission on Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief, we seek to elevate the academic discourse and clinical impact of palliative care to alleviate serious health-related suffering worldwide. Through our tri-institutional partnership, we will disseminate the science and scholarship of the global palliative care research hub and invite commentary from recognized health system and policy leaders around the world. Implications for research, clinical practice, education and training, and policy and advocacy efforts will be addressed. We invite interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral stakeholders to actively engage in this series that will cover a broad range of topics related to palliative care and pain relief, with an emphasis on global health equity, universal access to palliative care as a component of universal health coverage, and social justice.

1. Discuss emerging research in global palliative care and pain relief access to alleviate serious health-related suffering worldwide.
2. Describe the structural and system-level barriers that prevent universal access to palliative care as a component of universal health coverage.
3. Recognize public and global health inequities in palliative care and pain relief and actionable methods to promote social justice.
4. Identify national and global advocacy efforts and opportunities to increase palliative care and pain relief access across contexts and clinical settings.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies (commercial interests). All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.