ESMO acknowledges all international coordinating, collaborating and supporting project partners for their valuable contribution to this project which made it such a great success.
Coordinating partners
- ESMO
- European Association for Palliative Care
- International Program at the Pain & Policy Studies Group
- Union for International Cancer Control
- World Health Organization
Collaborating Partners
- African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC)
- African Palliative Care Association (APCA)
- Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN)
- Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO)
- Foundation Akbaraly, Madagascar
- Help the Hospices
- Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC)
- International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC)
- Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO)
- Latin American and Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology (SLACOM)
- Latin American Association for Palliative Care (ALCP)
- Malaysian Oncological Society (MOS)
- Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC)
- Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
- Myanmar Oncology Society
- Open Society Foundation (OSF)
- World Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA)
The lead authors, Nathan Cherny (ESMO) and James Cleary (PPSG), wish to acknowledge all the members of organisations worldwide who assisted in identifying country reporters, collecting the data and reviewing it for accuracy. In addition, special recognition goes to:
Coordinating partners
- Adamos Adamou and Alexandru Eniu (ESMO)
- Lukas Radbruch and Augusto Caraceni (EAPC)
- Julie Torode (UICC)
- Willem Scholten and Andreas Ullrich (WHO)
Collaborating partners
- Jorge Eisenchlas (ALCP)
- Anne Merriman and Belmira Rodrigues (AORTIC)
- Richard Powell, Grace Munene, Faith Mwangi-Powell, Emmanuel Luyirika, and Fatia Kiyange (APCA)
- Cynthia Goh (APHN)
- Tony Mok (CSCO)
- Cinzia Akbaraly (Fondation Akbaraly)
- Fiona Letendrie (Help the Hospices)
- Liliana De Lima (IAHPC)
- Nagesh Simha and Anil Paleri (IAPC)
- Kazuo Tamura (JSMO)
- Gregory Crawford (MASCC)
- Michael Silbermann (MECC)
- Ibrahim Wahid (MOS)
- Shu Mon (Myanmar Oncology Society)
- Kathy Foley and Mary Callaway (OSF)
- Eduardo Cazap (SLACOM)
- Stephen Connor and Claire Morris (WPCA)
Supporting organisations
- Verna Vanderpuye (Center for Radiotherapy, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana)
- Gouri Bhattacharyya (Indian Society of Medical and Pediatric Oncology – ISMPO, and Indian Co-operative Oncology Network – ICON-ARO)
- Dingle Spence (Jamaica Pain Collaborative)
- Kazuhiko Koike (Japanese Society for Palliative Medicine – JSPM)
- Mohammad Abdul Hai (SAARC Federation of Oncologists – SFO)
- M.R. Rajagopal (Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences and Chair of Pallium India)
Project coordination
- ESMO: Gracemarie Bricalli, overall project coordination,; Stephanie Bricalli, project assistance
- EAPC: Heidi Blumhuber and Amelia Giordano, online survey project coordination; Silvana Gori, online survey data management
- UICC: Rebecca Morton Doherty and Mélanie Samson, advocacy campaign coordination