Katherine Pettus
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
Katherine Pettus
Katherine joined IAHPC in 2014 as a part time Advocacy Officer. As Senior Advocacy and Partnerships Director, her goal is to partner with civil society colleagues and intergovernmental organizations to make IAHPC’S vision of a world free from health-related suffering a reality. To this end, she represents the IAHPC at meetings of the United Nations organizations to ensure inclusion of palliative care (PC) language and availability of essential PC medicines in relevant technical documents, reports, resolutions, and political declarations. Katherine mentors IAHPC members working at the national level to foster leadership and sustainability partnerships for transformative PC service delivery.
Katherine developed an online advocacy course for IAHPC members, speaks at national, regional, and international conferences upon request, writes a monthly newsletter column, and engages on IAHPC social media platforms, amplifying impact where change is happening. Her inspiration comes from interacting with colleagues around the world and accompanying teams on home visits to spread the good news about their work through her
writing.
Katherine holds a doctorate in Political Theory from Columbia University, a master’s degree in Health Law and Policy from the University of California San Diego, and an Arts/Law degree from Sydney University. She has an extensive list of publications, including two books, numerous chapters in multi-author collections, and journal articles. She trained in California as a hospice volunteer in 2010, joining the Leadership Development Initiative at the Institute for Palliative Medicine in 2011, and the IAHPC in 2014.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Spain; |
|---|---|
| Topics | Care inequalities; End-of-life care and LTC; Ethics and care; International Day of Care and Support; LTC Policy; Pain management in care homes; |
| Methods | Discourse analysis; Legal analysis; Policy analysis; Theory and frameworks; |
| Role | Advocacy; |
| Interest Groups | Long-Term Care in Spain; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); |
| Website | http://iahpc.com |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0002-3952-9644 |
| http://linkedin.com/in/katherine-pettus-a9814b9b | |
| Research interests | Palliative care and access to controlled medicines. Older persons and LTC |
| Key publications | Publications 2024 Structural imperialism and the pandemic of untreated pain in the Asia Region. Pettus, K. (2024). Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 5(2), 92-100. Analysis of opioid analgesic consumption in Africa. Namisango, E., & Pettus, K. (2024). The Lancet Global Health, 12(7), e1075-e1076. 2023 Systematic Review on Barriers to Access Opioid Analgesics for Cancer Pain Management from the Health Worker Perspective, Josephine Fleckner, Katherine Pettus, Nandini Vallath & Tania Pastrana (Sept, 2023), Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, DOI: 10.1080/15360288.2023.2257674 Perspectives of major world religions on assisted dying practices. Special Issue, IAHPC Newsletter on Assisted Dying, May 2023. Parallel opioid crises: brakes on sustainable development? Pettus, K., & Radbruch, L. (Palliative Care and Social Practice, 17, 26323524231176574. Pandemic treaty should include provisions for palliative care Katherine Pettus, Stephen Connor, Julia Downing, Joan Marston Bull World Health Organ. 2023 Jun 1; 101(6): 363–363A. Published online 2023 Jun 1. doi: 10.2471/BLT.23.289957 2022 Pettus, K. (2022). Palliative Care as ma-space Practice. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 64(6), e379-e382. Lohman, D., Cleary, J., Connor, S., De Lima, L., Downing, J., Marston, J., … & Pettus, K. (2022). Advancing global palliative care over two decades: health system integration, Access to Essential Medicines, and Pediatrics. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 64(1), 58-69. Rosa, W. E., Ahmed, E., Chaila, M. J., Chansa, A., Cordoba, M. A., Dowla, R., … & Pettus, K. I. (2022). Can You Hear Us Now? Equity in Global Advocacy for Palliative Care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 64(4), e217-e226. Pettus, K., & Dzotsenidze, P. (2022). The imperative of palliative care advocacy. Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care, 137. Cernesi, S., Demurtas, J., Centeno, C., Pettus, K., Murray, S. A., & Bruera, E. (2022). Supportive and Palliative Approach to the Older Persons. The Role of Family Physicians in Older People Care, 343-356. Pettus, K. (2022). Construyendo un mundo libre de sufrimiento relacionado a la salud. Medicina Paliativa, 29(3), 139-141. 2021 Pastrana, T., De Lima, L., Pettus, K., Ramsey, A., Napier, G., Wenk, R., & Radbruch, L. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on palliative care workers across the world: A qualitative analysis of responses to open-ended questions. Palliative & supportive care, 19(2), 187-192. 2020 Global Palliative Care: Reports From the Peripheries, June 2020 self-published “International Palliative Care Advocacy: Spiritual and Secular Ethics” in Religion, Spirituality, and Palliative Care, Routledge (ed. Kathleen Benton) |