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The EAPC Reference Group on Public Health & Palliative Care is organizing its second webinar on Wednesday the 6th of September 14:00-15:30 CEST.
Theme: EVIDENCE-BASE
Chair: Agnes van der Heide (Erasmus MC, The Netherlands)
Speakers:
- Steven Vanderstichelen (End-of-Life Care Research Group Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium), Complexities and Challenges in a Public Health Palliative Care Research
- Joseph Sawyer (University College London, UK), The Evidence for the Effectiveness of a Public Health Palliative Care Approach
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Agnes van der Heide
Agnes van der Heide was trained as a physician and epidemiologist. After obtaining her PhD degree in 1994, she started working in the department of Public Health at Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam. She initiated research in the area of palliative and end-of-life care in Erasmus MC. She has done studies on public health, clinical, ethical and legal aspects of end-of-life care and decision making, at the local, national and international level. Since 2013, she is a full professor of care and decision-making at the end of life at Erasmus MC.
Steven Vanderstichelen
Steven Vanderstichelen (MSc, PhD) is the research coordinator of the Compassionate Communities center of expertise (COCO), and a postdoctoral researcher working at the End-of-Life Care Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University. He obtained his Master’s degree in Sociology at Ghent University in 2014 and obtained his PhD in Social Health Sciences in 2019. His main research interests are public health approaches to palliative care, volunteering and compassionate communities, and death literacy. Steven is also a Steering Committee Member of the EAPC Reference Group on Public Health and Palliative Care.
