PHPCI Connections 

Public Health Palliative Care International has connections across the world. Please go to THIS page to visit compassionate cities across the world. Read on to visit some of our affliations.

European Association for Palliative Care: Reference Group on Public Health and Palliative Care

The reference group on public health and palliative care will bring together all major public health initiatives within palliative care in Europe. The main aim is to promote and improve palliative care via a public health approaches. It will also develop a network of public health researchers within the EAPC RN. The core group of the reference group consist of key persons in research and/or policy with a clear public health background or public health research or policy profile.

Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance

The Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA) is an international non-governmental organisation focusing exclusively on hospice and palliative care development worldwide. We are a network of national and regional hospice and palliative care organisations and affiliate organisations.

Our mission is:

To bring together the global palliative care community to improve well-being and reduce unnecessary suffering for those in need of palliative care in collaboration with the regional and national hospice and palliative care organisations and other partners.

We believe that no-one with a life-limiting condition, such as cancer or HIV, should live and die with unnecessary pain and distress. Our vision is a world with universal access to hospice and palliative care. Our mission is to foster, promote and influence the delivery of affordable, quality palliative care.

The WHPCA is registered in the UK where our secretariat staff are currently based.

International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care

IAHPC has its origins in the International Hospice Institute, founded by Josefina Magno, MD, in 1980.

From this, IHIC members of the former organization developed IAHPC with an international perspective designed not to promote a unique palliative care model, but to encourage and enable each country according to its resources and conditions to develop its own model of palliative care provision. The organization believes in the philosophy that developing countries should take advantage of the experience and professional expertise accumulated in developed countries and not be expected to copy models more appropriate to affluent countries.

The organization’s mission is to serve as a global platform to inspire, inform and empower individuals, governments and organizations to increase access and optimize the practice of palliative care.