Dr. Seow is the Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care and Health System Innovation and a Professor at McMaster University, Department of Oncology. He focuses on ways to improve palliative care delivery and the care experience, particularly in the home and community. His expertise is in health services and policy research, quality measurement, population-based analytics, and program evaluation.

Dr. Winemaker is a palliative care physician who cares for patients with serious illness and their families in the home. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care. She is the Medical Co-Lead of the Hamilton Community Palliative Care Team and an active trainer of palliative care education to medical students, residents, and clinicians.

Dr Libby Sallnow is a palliative medicine consultant and academic. She has helped lead and develop the fields of new public health approaches to end-of-life care, compassionate communities, and social approaches to death, dying and loss over the past two decades in the UK and internationally.

Alongside her role with UCL Division of Psychiatry, Dr Sallnow is an Honorary Consultant at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Palliative Care in Kerala, India, a guest professor in the End-of-Life Care Research Group at the Vrije Universtieit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium and the first author of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life (2022). She works as a community-based palliative medicine consultant covering the London boroughs of Camden and Islington as part of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL).

Dr Libby Sallnow is a palliative medicine consultant with CNWL NHS Trust in London, UK and an honorary senior lecturer at St Christopher's Hospice and the UCL Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, UK. She has helped lead and develop the fields of new public health approaches to end of life care, compassionate communities and social approaches to death, dying and loss over the past two decades in the UK and internationally. Her PhD explored the translation of a model of compassionate communities from Kerala, India to London, UK. She has published over 25 articles and book chapters in these fields and co-edited the book "International perspectives on public health and palliative care" in 2011. She is an Honorary Consultant at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Palliative Care in Kerala, India, Vice President of Public Health Palliative Care International, the President of the Palliative Care Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK, a post-doc researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium and the first author of the new Lancet Commission on the Value of death: bringing death back into life (2022).

Lucy is an Associate Professor in the School of Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol. Her research and publications over the past 18 years have mainly focused on psychosocial and spiritual aspects of the illness experience; decision-making and communication; family care-giving and bereavement; and widening access to services.

Lucy's research interests fall into two areas: the development and evaluation of complex clinical interventions, and palliative and end-of-life care and bereavement.

Dr. Sally Thorne studies patient experience in serious and life-limiting conditions such as chronic disease and cancer, most recently focusing on palliative approaches to care delivery across sectors and nurses’ experiences with medical assistance in dying. In addition to advising various professional and policy organizations, she actively fosters nursing scholarship development through her philosophical and methodological activities and in her role as Editor-in-Chief of Nursing Inquiry.

Dr. Edward J. Miech is an implementation researcher with expertise in mixed-methods evaluations of facility-level interventions. In addition to his in-depth experience with qualitative research, he is a national expert in conducting research with Configurational Comparative Methods (including Qualitative Comparative Analysis), a mathematical approach to data analysis that uses Boolean algebra and set theory to analyze how specific combinations of conditions directly link to outcomes.

Dr. Barbara Pesut is a Professor in the School of Nursing at UBC’s Okanagan campus, and she currently holds the Principal Research Chair (Tier 1) in Palliative and End of Life Care. Her research interests include palliative care, rural and remote care, and medical assistance in dying. Her program of research focuses on: (1) finding innovative ways to enhance the care of older adults living with serious illness; and (2) the provision of spiritual and religious care for diverse populations in healthcare. My team is committed to building community capacity and partnerships. We work with community-based groups and organizations across BC & Canada using community-based, participatory-action research. Barb’s nursing clinical background was in palliative and critical care. During her spare time, Barb enjoys skiing, riding and hiking with her dog, Ellie

Sue Tan has over 15 years of global experience as a practitioner, entrepreneur, and educator in the field of human-centered design and innovation, rooted her early career as a human factors researcher and lead strategist at the world-renown design and innovation firm IDEO. She has worked for a diverse range of clients that include Nike, Marriott, Medtronic, the VA, Paypal, AT&T, and the Singapore Government. Her expertise and passion is bridging the needs and behaviors of people and society with impactful business and design solutions. In addition to cross-industry consulting, she has also co-founded a health and wellness venture in the emergent cannabinoid science space and actively teaches at the graduate level.

She gained her foundation in creative problem solving while earning a BFA in Industrial Design at the University of Washington. She then integrated her business and strategic lens while earning an MS in Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Sue has co-authored a book about innovation called The Tao of Innovation: Nine Questions Every Innovator Must Answer and is also an adjunct lecturer and course creator at the University of Southern California’s Iovine and Young Academy Integrated Design, Business and Technology program.

Dr. Emily Jenkins, a registered nurse, is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia. She brings extensive clinical and research expertise from acute and community mental health and substance use settings.

Her clinical training and experience informs her program of research, which aims to enhance mental health outcomes and reduce substance use harms for Canadians through mental health promotion strategies and health services and policy redesign. Dr. Jenkins current research is characterized by an “upstream” focus and includes studies exploring strategies to facilitate citizen engagement in mental health and substance use policy and intervention design, and youth engaged research to promote mental health and reduce substance use harms. She is recognized as a leader in the youth mental health and substance use field and has established policy, practice and media channels that support knowledge mobilization and research impact

Holly Prince is an Anishinaabekwe and a member of Opwaaganisiniing in Northwestern Ontario. Holly leads the Indigenous Peoples' Health and Aging Division at Lakehead University's Centre for Education and Research on Aging & Health, where she has devoted the last 20 years to advancing the right of Indigenous peoples' access to culturally appropriate and equitable palliative care. Holly has mobilized her efforts as a national champion of human rights and dignity for people at the end of life.