Katherine Pettus, IAHPC and Palliative Care Advocacy.
Dr Katherine Pettus came to palliative care after training as a hospice volunteer and attending a conference on international hospice and palliative care featuring Dr. Rajagopal and Dr. Anne Merriman, from Hospice Africa Uganda. After learning about the lack of access to opioid medicines in developing countries, and training with the Leadership Development Initiative at San Diego Hospice and Institute for Palliative Medicine, she went back to school to study international law and health policy. Since earning a Masters in Health Law and Policy she has been working tirelessly for palliative care advocacy, analyzing the international legal situation that creates access barriers to essential opioids for pain relief, and working with country partners on the ground.
Katherine and other civil society colleagues engage at the Commission on Narcotics Drugs, the Human Rights Council, and UN Agencies to educate countries about their human rights obligations to provide pain relief and palliative care to their citizens.
Read this article in the IAHPC newsletter, where she writes about the various activities that she and IAHPC are involved in.
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