Public Health Palliative Care (PHPC) has emerged from its beginnings in the late 1990s as Health Promoting Palliative Care.
Based on the WHO Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, PHPC views dying, caregiving, and grief as concerns of whole communities, not just individuals or healthcare services. Through equal partnerships between communities and healthcare, people who are dying, those who care about them and those who are grieving them can obtain support from engaged communities and responsive healthcare services. In this presentation, John will provide insights into practical examples, the growing body of scholarly research and the potential benefits of this approach.



Dr John Rosenberg
Dr John Rosenberg is a Registered Nurse with a clinical background in community-based palliative care. He is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing in the School of Health at the University of the Sunshine Coast in southeast Queensland. John’s doctoral studies and ongoing research interests are in public health palliative care – a social model of health and community that strongly links healthcare services and communities in order to prepare and respond to the needs of people, carers and social networks during dying, caregiving and grief. He is the current President of Public Health Palliative Care International.

When not at work, John can be found wandering his suburban oasis, looking for new DIY projects, even though there are unfinished ones begging for completion.