Conference Agenda

Session Overview
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Kornhausforum, 2nd floor, 3011 Bern
 
Date: Tuesday, 22/Oct/2024
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Plenary 2: Death literacy - how to develop, how to measure
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Joachim Cohen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Chair: Ekkapop Sittiwantana, Compassionate Communities Research and Devlopment Institution Foundation Thailand, Thailand
Chair: Carol Tishelman, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Language: English
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Parallel Session 1a: Building equity
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Therese Johansson, King's College London, United Kingdom
Chair: Stephen Robert Connor, Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance, United States of America
Language: English

 
Date: Wednesday, 23/Oct/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Plenary 3: The end of life in marginalized populations
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Farzana Khan, University of Edinburgh / Fasiuddin Khan Research Foundation, Bangladesh, People's Republic of
Chair: Kelli Stajduhar, University of Victoria, Canada
Announcement of the PHPCI Community Building award winner
Language: English
11:00am
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12:30pm
Parallel session 2a: Accessing care
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Malin Eneslätt, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Chair: Christian Ntizimira, African Center for Research on End of Life Care (ACREOL), Rwanda
Language: English
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Parallel session 3a: Experiencing bereavement and caregiving
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Julia Rehsmann, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Chair: Ekkapop Sittiwantana, Compassionate Communities Research and Devlopment Institution Foundation Thailand, Thailand
Language: English
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Plenary 4: Bereavement companionship programs - luxury or societal standard?
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Saif Mohammed, Institute of Palliative Medicine, India
Chair: Libby Sallnow, University College London, United Kingdom
Announcement of the PHPCI Research Impact award winner
Language: English

 
Date: Thursday, 24/Oct/2024
8:30am
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9:00am
Warm up: with Seniorstars
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
"Don Quixote Revisited" - Choreography by Clare Guss-West , Carla Winkelmann & Nina Müller
9:00am
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10:30am
Plenary 5: Policy summit of PHPCI 2024: Global compassion! The ‘Bern Declaration’ on community engagement for the end of life
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Christian Ntizimira, African Center for Research on End of Life Care (ACREOL), Rwanda
Chair: Steffen Eychmueller, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland

with
- Marie Charlotte Bouësseau, former Team Leader at the WHO Integrated Health Services Department
- Anne Lévy, Director-General of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Switzerland
- Christian Ntizimira, Executive Director of African Center for Research on End of Life Care (ACREOL), Rwanda

Language: English
11:00am
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12:30pm
Parallel session 4a: Developing sustainable policies
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Kerrie Noonan, Death Literacy Institute, Australia
Chair: Allan Kellehear, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Language: English
12:30pm
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2:00pm
EAPC: Reference group meeting
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
This meeting is open to all participants
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Parallel session 5a: Measuring death literacy
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Corina Wirth, Public Health Schweiz, Switzerland
Chair: Roman Rolke, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Germany
Language: English

 
Date: Friday, 25/Oct/2024
9:00am
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10:30am
Parallel session 6a: Fostering compassionate communities
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Esther Nafula Wekesa, Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya
Chair: Clément Meier, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Language: English
11:00am
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12:30pm
Plenary 6: Compassionate cities international
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Chair: Vilma Adriana Tripodoro, Institute Pallium Latinoamerica/ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care WHO CC, Argentine Republic
Chair: Allan Kellehear, Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Chair: Steffen Eychmueller, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
Announcement of the PHPCI Early Career award winner
Language: English
12:30pm
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1:00pm
Conference wrap up
Location: Kornhausforum - Plenary hall
Language: English