IAHPC News

New IAHPC Course: Advancing Palliative Care in Healthcare Settings This online course, beginning April 9 and running for four consecutive Thursdays, aims to equip participants with the knowledge, tools, and mentorship needed to advocate for the integration of the Essential and Expanded Palliative Care Packages for Adults and Children in their institutions. IAHPC members who work in institutions are eligible to apply. The course is limited to 12 people; the deadline for applications is March 13. Join IAHPC today!

IAHPC's World Day of the Sick webinar is freely available for viewing, and an upcoming webinar on “Ten Years Since the UNGASS Outcome Document: New tools to help member states fulfil their commitments on controlled medicines” will be held in March. Read about both in this month's Advocacy roundup.

Two new buttons have been added to the IAHPC homepage, in the lower right-hand corner: a "search" button to quickly locate things on the IAHPC website, and instant access to the latest items in "What's New."

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Children in Need Lack Necessary Medicines  A team of international experts has called for greater efforts to address the widespread global failure to ensure children—particularly those in low-income and middle-income countries—have access to essential medicines for pain, seizures, anaesthesia, and other serious conditions. Research underpinning this conclusion was published in this and this article in last week's The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health co-authored by IAHPC member and PhD candidate Brandon Maser, lead author of one of the articles. Other authors included former board members. IAHPC membership is free for undergraduate & post-graduate students in healthcare: join today. Download the Essential & Expanded Palliative Care Packages for Children issued in 2025.

End-of-Life Essentials has updated its 40-minute, free online course "Emergency Department End-of-Life Care." Registration for Australia-based EOL Essentials, giving access to several education modules and training resources, is free.

IAHPC Resources

Free for everyone
Getting Started: an online guide and suggestions to creating a hospice or palliative care service. It covers 14 topics related to beginning a service from scratch, from the overarching basics ("What is Palliative Care?") to nuts-and-bolts, detailed advice about management & governance, the palliative care team, volunteers, and much more.

Free for members
Wondering how your regional or national association can advocate to strengthen PC services in your country? Watch the online course, "Advocacy for Global, Regional, and National Palliative Care," given by IAHPC Senior Director of Advocacy and Partnerships Katherine Pettus.