2019; Volume 20, No 4, April
Genevieve Napier, IAHPC Membership and Programs Officer
IAHPC Membership Matters
Your membership can make a world of difference.
Sign Up to be Eligible for 2019 IAHPC Institutional Award
As a way to recognize the commitment and support from leaders in institutions that join the IAHPC as members, all current institutional members are eligible for the annual Institutional Award: a $USD2,000 Traveling Scholarship or Traveling Fellowship. The institution determines who in their group will use the traveling scholarship.
If your institution has been thinking of joining IAHPC, now is the time! The winner will be drawn at random from those who are institutional members on April 30, 2019. To join IAHPC, click here.
The only other criterion is that the institution has never received the award in the past. (IAHPC staff members, relatives and directors are not eligible to participate.) The winner will be contacted in May and announced in an upcoming issue.
This is the third year of the award. The 2018 winner was Assisi Palliative Care Berhad in Malaysia; it selected Ms. Satwin Kaur as the recipient of the scholarship. Ms. Kaur will use the scholarship to attend the 6th World Congress on Hospice and Palliative Care in Singapore, 13-14 May 2019.
A group photo at the Fellowship in Palliative Care program in Calicut, India, in February. Three were IAHPC Travel Scholarship recipients (see below).
3 Bangladesh Recipients of IAHPC Travel Scholarships
Three candidates from Bangladesh were each awarded a $USD300 IAHPC Travel Scholarship to attend an orientation program, Fellowship in Palliative Care, held in February at the Institute of Palliative Medicine in Calicut, India. Forty candidates from 10 countries participated. These were our Traveling Scholars:
Krishna Roy, Bangladesh
Education: Mpharm, MPH
Designation: Project Coordinator, ‘Compassionate Korail,’ a palliative care project in the slums of Dhaka.
Why he joined for Fellowship in Palliative Care: ‘I was motivated by my experience in Project Compassionate Korail, a community palliative care project.’
Khadija Akther Shopna, Bangladesh
Education: Masters in Biotechnology
Designation: Coordinator, Community Based Pediatric Palliative Care Project, BSSMU, Dhaka
Why she joined for Fellowship in Palliative Care: ‘To learn more about core issues in palliative care and get practical knowledge by meeting other people and vising other community-based models in different regions.’
Mridul Sarkar, Bangladesh
Education: Master of Pharmacy and Perusing Masters in Public Health
Designation: Coordinator, Home-Based Palliative Care Program, Centre for Palliative Care, BSSMU, Dhaka
Why he joined for Fellowship in Palliative Care: ‘To enrich knowledge in providing palliative care at the community level and meet others from different regions who work in the same field.’
May 10 Deadline for IAHPC Scholarships to 2 Conferences
Applications must be received by 10 May 2019 to be considered for Traveling Scholarships available for conferences in Africa and Oceania.
- 5 (five) scholarships for the 6th International African Palliative Care Assocation (APCA) Conference in Kigali, Rwanda on September 17-20, 2019. Deadline to apply is May 10, 2019. Results will be announced early June.
- 8 (eight) scholarships for the Oceanic Palliative Care Conference (OPCC) in Perth, Australia on September 10-13, 2019. Deadline to apply is May 10, 2019. Results will be announced early June.
Applicants must be current IAHPC members when submitting an application and during the conference. To become a member, click here.
New and Renewing Members
Read the list of individuals who joined/renewed their membership with IAHPC during the past month.
Membership renewals
| Name | Country |
|---|---|
| Kenya Hospices And Palliative Care Association | Kenya |
| Jane Bates | Malawi |
| Ganesh Dangal | Nepal |
| Joseph Chisaka | Malawi |
| Oluwatoyin M. Adegboye | Nigeria |
| Gaudencia Afuande | Kenya |
| Naseem Mohamed Hussein | Kenya |
| Farzana Khan | Bangladesh |
| Carol Narra | Philippines |
| Peris Weyala Wandera | Kenya |
| Claudia Bonaya | Kenya |
| Louise Welch | Australia |
| Dorothy Wholihan | United States |
New members
| Name | Country |
|---|---|
| Sarah Nestor | Australia |
| S Secondine N GNINTOUNGBE DADA | Benin |
| Andre Santos | Brazil |
| Marina Cardoso Yamashita | Brazil |
| Venita Eng | Indonesia |
| Carlos Roa | Mexico |
| Malfrid Holmaas Bjorgaas | Norway |
| Peter Corvera | Philippines |
| Candida Raquel | Portugal |
| Linda Eriksson | Sweden |
| Ashley Foley | United States |
| Jacek Soroka | United States |
See the full list of IAHPC members