Expert Council
In 2025, we established the PACED Expert Council — a new advisory body created to support the Foundation’s educational and programme activities and to strengthen our engagement with the professional community in our target countries.
The Council helps us stay closely connected to practitioners, understand local contexts, and design programmes that reflect the real needs, experiences, and challenges faced by professionals working in palliative care.
The Council helps us stay closely connected to practitioners, understand local contexts, and design programmes that reflect the real needs, experiences, and challenges faced by professionals working in palliative care.
Objectives
- Support PACED’s educational mission.
- Provide expert input into the development of programmes and initiatives.
- Offer external evaluation of the PACED projects.
- Foster international partnerships and strengthen the Foundation’s reputation.
- Represent the interests of professional communities in their respective countries.
Tasks
- Advise PACED on the content of educational and strategic programmes.
- Help to ensure that local needs and contexts in the region are taken into account.
- Assess the relevance, applicability, and sustainability of the implemented projects.
- Propose new directions and initiatives.
- Promote the Foundation’s professional recognition in the international palliative care field.
Expert Council Members
The current composition has been approved for a two-year term. It unites recognised leaders in palliative care from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Members will engage in strategic discussions and events, representing PACED in external forums.
Founder of paediatric palliative care in Latvia, Head of the Latvian Service for Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Palliative Care for Children, and Chair of the Paediatric Palliative Care Board of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN).
Anda Jansone, Latvia
“One person in the field is not a warrior.”
This saying perfectly describes palliative care, which differs from other medical specialities precisely because of its focus on teamwork.
This saying perfectly describes palliative care, which differs from other medical specialities precisely because of its focus on teamwork.
Founder of paediatric palliative care in Latvia, Head of the Latvian Service for Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Palliative Care for Children, and Chair of the Paediatric Palliative Care Board of the International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN).
Anda Jansone, Latvia
‘“One person in the field is not a warrior.”
This saying perfectly describes palliative care, which differs from other medical specialities precisely because of its focus on teamwork.
This saying perfectly describes palliative care, which differs from other medical specialities precisely because of its focus on teamwork.
Gulnara Kunirova, Kazakhstan
This kind of work requires a shift in mindset. One has to learn to see an issue from both points of view—one of the public and another of the government.
President of the Kazakhstan Association for Palliative Care, Executive Director of the Public foundation United Against Cancer, Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC).
Gulnara Kunirova, Kazakhstan
This kind of work requires a shift in mindset. One has to learn to see an issue from both points of view—one of the public and another of the government.
President of the Kazakhstan Association for Palliative Care, Executive Director of the Public foundation United Against Cancer, Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC).
Executive Director of Firefly World — the first children's hospice in Tbilisi, Georgia; an entrepreneur; and a professional in international development.
Irakli Vetsko, Georgia
Creating a structure where knowledge and skills can be transferred will make working much easier and more efficient.
Executive Director of Firefly World — the first children's hospice in Tbilisi, Georgia; an entrepreneur; and a professional in international development.
Irakli Vetsko, Georgia
Creating a structure where knowledge and skills can be transferred will make working much easier and more efficient.
Yakhyo Ziyaev, Uzbekistan
Oncologist, Secretary-General of the Association of Oncologists, and one of the leaders of the palliative care development movement in Uzbekistan.
Political will, people, international cooperation, and persistence are the four pillars on which we are building palliative care in Uzbekistan.
Yakhyo Ziyaev, Uzbekistan
Political will, people,
international cooperation, and persistence are the four pillars on which we are building palliative care in Uzbekistan.
international cooperation, and persistence are the four pillars on which we are building palliative care in Uzbekistan.
Oncologist, Secretary-General of the Association of Oncologists, and one of the leaders of the palliative care development movement in Uzbekistan.
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