Table 2.

Members of the Expert Group

Name	Profession	Residence	Country’s Income Levela
1. Bee Wee	Physician and researcher; head of palliative care research and development, Sir Michael Sobell House in Oxford	U.K.	High
2. Carlos Centeno	Physician and researcher—education in PC. ATLANTES Professor Palliative Care Universidad de Navarra	Spain	High
3. Charmaine Blanchard	Physician—PC; senior lecturer and researcher, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg	South Africa	Upper middle
4. Chitra Venkateswaran	Physician—mental health and PC; founder and clinical director MEHAC Foundation	India	Lower middle
5. Christina Puchalski	Physician—spiritual care; director, GWish	U.S.	High
6. Claudia Burla	Physician—geriatrician; secretary of the board, International Association of Gerontologists	Brazil	Upper middle
7. Cynthia Goh	Physician—chairperson of the Asia Pacific Hospice and Palliative Care Network	Singapore	High
8. Dingle Spence	Physician—PC; regional leader, president Caribbean Palliative Care Association	Jamaica	Upper middle
9. Eduardo Bruera	Physician—PC in cancer; researcher; PC chair, MD Anderson Cancer Center	U.S.	High
10. Emmanuel Luyirika	Physician—regional leader; executive director; APCA	Uganda	Low
11. Esther Cege Munyoro	Physician—PC; coordinator, PC unit, Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi	Kenya	Lower middle
12. Hibah Osman	Physician—PC; executive and medical director, Balsam Center, Beirut	Lebanon	Upper middle
13. Jim Cleary	Physician—PC in cancer; researcher; director WHO Collaborating Center in PPSG	U.S.	High
14. Jinsun Yong	Nurse—education in PC; director WHO Collaborating Center for Training in Hospice & Palliative Care	Republic of Korea	High
15. Joan Marston	Nurse—PALCHASE	South Africa	Upper middle
16. John Beard	Physician—epidemiology—Healthy Aging WHO	Switzerland	High
17. Julia Downing	Nurse—professor PC; Makerere—ICPCN	Uganda	Low
18. Katherine Pettus	Political science—advocacy international legal frameworks, access to medicines for PC; advocacy officer IAHPC	U.S.	High
19. Kathy Foley	Physician—PC specialist; adviser to IAHPC	U.S.	High
20. Liliana De Lima	Psychologist, HC administrator, executive director IAHPC	U.S./Colombia	High
21. Lukas Radbruch	Physician—professor PC, University Bonn, Chair IAHPC	Germany	High
22. M. R. Rajagopal	Physician—PC advocate, Chair Pallium India	India	Lower middle
23. Mary Callaway	Administrator—Board member IAHPC and APCA	U.S.	High
24. Mhoira Leng	Physician—PC development, education; lead for PC Makerere University; and Cairdeas International Palliative Care Trust	Uganda	Low
25. Odette Spruitt	Physician—PC; associate professor, Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, Australasian Palliative Link International	Australia	High
26. Odontuya Davaasuren	Physician—professor PC; Mongolian Palliative Care Society	Mongolia	Lower middle
27. Phillippe Larkin	Nurse, researcherdPresident of EAPC	Ireland	High
28. Quach T. Khanh	Physician—Ho Chi Minh City Hospital—director palliative care unit	Vietnam	Lower middle
29. Richard Harding	Sociologist, researcher—Director of the Center for Global Health Palliative Care Kings College, London	U.K.	High
30. Roberto Wenk	Physician—PC director—National Palliative Care program FEMEBA	Argentina	Upper middle
31. Roger Woodruff	Physician—founder IAHPC; retired professor PC	Australia	High
32. Rosa Buitrago	Pharmacist—dean, School of Pharmacy, University of Panama	Panama	High
33. Sebastiane Moine	Physician—primary PC IPPCN	France	High
34. Stephen Connor	Psychologist, administrator, and researcher, ED WHPCA	U.S.	High
35. Sushma Bhatnaghar	Physician—professor PC, AIIMS Institute, New Delhi, India	India	Lower middle
36. Tania Pastrana	Physician, sociologist, and researcher—Aachen University; president, Latin American Association for Palliative Care	Germany/Colombia	High
37. Wendy Gomez-Garcia	Pediatric oncology—Global Pediatric Medicine Collaborator for Haiti & Dominican Republic, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital	Dominican Republic	Upper middle
38. Zipporah Ali	Physician—executive director, KEHPCA	Uganda	Low

PC = palliative care; MEHAC = Mental Health Care and Research Foundation; GWish = The George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health; APCA = African Palliative Care Association; WHO = World Health Organization; PPSG = Policy and Pain Studies Group; PURCHASE = Palliative Care in Humanitarian Aid Situations and Emergencies network; ICPCN = International Children’s Palliative Care Network; EAPC = European Association for Palliative, Care; FEMEBA = Federación Médica de la Provincia de Buenos Aires; IPPCN = International Primary Palliative Care Network; ED = emergency department; WHPCA = Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance; KEHPCA = Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association.

^aPer the World Bank Classification