Join a breakfast panel and conversation:
Compassion in Children’s Health
Closing the Gap in Palliative and Serious Illness Care
Thursday, April 23 at 9:00 am
at Oxford Town Hall
Just minutes from the Skoll World Forum main events
Send an email to info@globaltreehouse.foundation to join us, we look forward to having you.
Join us for a breakfast conversation exploring the needs of children living with serious illness - one of the most overlooked gaps in global child health.
Around the world, millions of children live with complex and life-limiting conditions. Yet the care that supports their comfort, dignity and quality of life - known as children’s palliative care - remains unavailable to the vast majority who need it.
Often misunderstood as only end-of-life care, children’s palliative care is in fact about helping children live as well as possible: alongside treatment, throughout illness, and in ways that support the whole child and family.
This conversation will bring together clinicians, social entrepreneurs and global health leaders to explore how innovation, leadership and collaboration can help close this gap.
What we will explore
• Why millions of children globally still lack access to palliative care
• What compassionate systems of care can look like in practice
• Innovations expanding access in diverse settings
• The role philanthropy, leadership and cross-sector collaboration can play
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Dr Renée McCulloch
Consultant Paediatrician and Deputy Medical Director, Great Ormond Street Hospital
PANELIST
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Brian Walusimbi
Founder & Executive Director, Bless a Child Foundation, Senior Skoll Fellow, social entrepreneur
PANELIST
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Laura Dale-Harris
Founder and Executive Director, Global Treehouse, advancing innovation in children’s palliative care
PANELIST
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Chris Underhill MBE
Social entrepreneur and global mental health expert, Skoll awardee, Senior Ashoka Fellow
MODERATOR
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Esther Wang
Elevate Prize advisor, social entrepreneur, Global Treehouse trustee
CO-HOST
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Jonty Roland
Global health independent advisor, Global Treehouse Board of Trustees chair
CO-HOST
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Rebecca Eastmond
Co-founder and CEO of Greenwood Place, Global Treehouse trustee
CO-HOST