Public Health Research in Palliative Care: Shifting the Paradigm

When:

25-10-2018 to 26-10-2018

Where:

Brussels, Belgium

International Seminar of EAPC RN and the EAPC Reference Group on Public Health and Palliative Care

Location: Palace of the Royal Academies, Hertogsstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS OPEN: CLICK HERE! DEADLINE IS 1 SEPTEMBER.

Improving support in society for palliative care
Death, dying and loss
Family caregiving for people with serious illness
Volunteers in end-of-life and palliative care
Non-professional agents and organizations in end-of-life and palliative care
Collaboration and coalitions between health care services and civil society or the general public
Community interventions to improve end-oflife or bereavement care
Public health policy to improve end-of-life or bereavement care in society

Day 1: Thursday 25 October
9u00	Coffee
9u25	Welcome by prof. Augusto Caraceni, President of European Association for Palliative Care - Research Network and prof. Luc Deliens, End-of-Life Care Research Group Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium
9u35	Opening (TBD)
9u45	Plenary lecture: Epidemiology & palliative care prof. Agnes van der Heide, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands
10u15	Plenary lecture: What’s new about new public health research? Why do we need it in palliative care research? Libby Sallnow, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
10u45	Plenary lecture based on selected abstract
11u10	Abstract session 1: Theme 1, 5 presentations
12u50	Lunch
14u00	Abstract session 2: Theme 2, 5 presentations
15u40	Coffee
16u00	Plenary lecture: Why public health should look at family carers of dying persons prof. Gunn Grande, Supportive and Palliative Care Research Group, University of Manchester, UK
16u30	Plenary lecture (video): Palliative Care in Primary Health Care: WHO Guidance prof. Eric Krakauer, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, United States of America (TBC)
17u00-18u00	Panel discussion day 1: panel members (TBD)
18u30- 20u30	Conference dinner (walking dinner)

Day 2: Friday 26 October
9u00	Coffee
9u30	Plenary lecture 4: Natural history of palliative care: From the British hospices to the Compassionate communities prof. Xavier Gomez Batiste Alentorn, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Spain
10u00	Plenary lecture based on best abstract selection
10u20	Plenary lecture: What can big data do for public health palliative care research? prof. Joachim Cohen, End-of-Life Care Research Group Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium
11u10	Abstract session 3: Theme 3, 5 presentations
12u30	Paneldiscussion day 2: panel members (TBD)
13u30	Closing of congress followed by lunch, prof. Luc Deliens, End-of-Life Care Research Group Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Ghent University, Belgium

Registration fee: €250
Registration fee for Bachelor/ Master students: €80
Registration until the 15th of October 2018 via this link:
http://www.vub.ac.be/en/events/2018/international-eapc-rn-seminar-on-public-health-research-in-palliative-care

Contact & sponsoring
Geertje van Duijnhoven
geertje.vanduynhoven@uzgent.be
+32 478 96 91 15

Arno Maetens
arno.maetens@vub.be
+32 2 477 49 59

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