7th International African Palliative Care Conference

Professor Olaitan Soyannwo is a Professor of Anaesthesia and Consultant in Anaesthesia, Pain and Palliative Care. She is the cofounder and President of the Centre for Palliative Care Nigeria (CPCN). She is active in advocating for effective pain management and opioid availability in developing countries. Professor Soyannwo has been instrumental in developing pain management and palliative care in Nigeria and other countries

Professor Richard Harding is the Herbert Dunhill Chair of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation, the Director of the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, and the Vice Dean (International) of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Palliative Care at King’s College London.

Dr. Ambrose Otau Talisuna is the Regional Advisor for Health Security and International Health Regulations, Unit Lead for Health Security Preparedness (HSP), and Lead for Preparedness on the Incident Management Support Team (IMST) for the COVID-19 pandemic response in the WHO Africa Region.

Professor Eric A. Finkelstein, PhD, MHA is Professor of Health Services and Systems Research and Deputy Head of Research at SingHealth Duke-NUS Supportive and Palliative Care Centre at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. He is the Executive Director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care and directs the NUS Institute for Health in Asia (NIHA) research program.

Professor Seggane Musisi, MD FRCP(C) is a Professor of Psychiatry and former Chair of Psychiatry at Makerere University College of Health Sciences and a Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at Mulago National Referral and Teaching Hospital and Ministry of Health.

Professor Anne Merriman, MBChB, MBE, MCommH, FRCPI, FRCP was born in Liverpool, England and pursued a career in medicine, graduating from University College Dublin, Ireland. She is known for her pioneering work and influential research into palliative care in Africa.

Dr. Katherine Pettus is the Senior Advocacy and Partnerships Director for the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC). She collaborates with civil society organizations and policymakers to achieve IAHPC’S vision of a world free from health-related suffering.

Professor Julia Downing is an experienced palliative care nurse, educationalist and researcher. She is the Chief Executive of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) and an honorary professor at Makerere University, Uganda. She has extensive experience in global palliative care research and education and is on the editorial board of ecancer,

Dr Emmanuel Luyirika is the executive director of the African Palliative Care Association, a pan-African palliative care organization with programmes in several African countries. He is a board member of the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance and President of the Executive Board of CoRSU Hospital in Uganda, a charitable rehabilitation and plastic surgery service for children and adults with disabilities.

Dr Stephen R. Connor is the executive director of the London, UK based charity, Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), an alliance of 400 national and regional hospice and palliative care organizations in over 103 countries worldwide in official relations with WHO. WHPCA manages World Hospice & Palliative Care Day for the global community and the international edition of www.ehospice.com.

Jane Bates is a medical doctor who has lived for twenty years in Malawi where she developed clinical, teaching, research, and mentorship platforms for palliative care. Dr Bates has published widely from her background of clinical and teaching practice. In 2013 she authored “Inspiring Hope”

Eric L. Krakauer, MD, PhD, is associate professor of medicine and global health & social medicine at Harvard Medical School, an attending physician in the division of Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA, and honorary chair of the department of Palliative Care at the University of Medicine & Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Liz Gwyther is an emeritus associate professor at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where she established the Division of Interdisciplinary Palliative Care and Medicine within the School of Public Health and Family Medicine. Prof Gwyther has postgraduate qualifications in family practice and palliative medicine. She is a senior research scholar at UCT and contributes to the division’s research projects as well as supervising master’s and PhD students.

Mark Donald Mwesiga is the country director of the Palliative Care Association of Uganda (PCAU). He holds a Master of Public Health (health promotion option) degree, a Master of Management Studies, and a Bachelor of Social Sciences from Makerere University. He has various short course qualifications including Drug Policy, Diplomacy, and Public Health from The Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ms Kiyange, the executive director of CEHURD, has more than 20 years of work experience in the health and social welfare sectors. At CEHURD she continues to spearhead access to social justice in health and human rights within health systems, with the ultimate goal of realizing the right to health for all people, especially those furthest behind.

A 1984 graduate of the University of Adelaide Medical School, South Australia, Dr. Cleary trained in internal medicine and medical oncology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, followed by three years of opioid pharmacology research in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide. He moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994, initially working on Phase 1 cytotoxic studies,

Dr. Francis Ssali is a Deputy Executive Director at Joint Clinical Research Center (JCRC). He is a Physician involved in the practice and teaching of HIV-medicine, Internal medicine and Haematology at the Joint Clinical Research Centre and Makerere University Medical School. He is an Investigator in the ACTG -Network studies, HIV-Reservoir Studies, and cell based therapy for both HIV and SCD.