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Dr

Libby Sallnow

(she/her)

Associate Professor of Palliative and End-of-Life Care

Marie Curie Palliative Care

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  • Associate Professor of Palliative and End-of-Life Care
    Marie Curie Palliative Care
  • Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Maple House 6th Floor Wing B, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1t 7NF, United Kingdom

BIO

Dr Libby Sallnow is an Associate Professor and Head of Department of the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department at University College London. She works as a palliative medicine physician the community setting for the NHS in London, is a guest professor at the End-of-Life Care Research Group at the Vrije Universiteit in Belgium and an honorary consultant at the WHO collaborating centre in palliative care in Kerala, India. 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 and the first author of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: bringing death back into life (2022).

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON APPOINTMENTS

  • Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
    University College London, Division of Psychiatry

MEDIA

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor
    University College London, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, London, UK1 Apr 2024 - present
  • Guest professor
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel, End-of-Life Care Research Group, Brussels, Belgium1 Jan 2021 - present
  • Clinical Academic
    St Christopher's Hospice, Research, London, United Kingdom3 Sep 2018 - 31 Mar 2024
  • Honorary Consultant
    WHO Collaborating Centre for Building Country Capacity in Palliative Care and Long-Term Care (IND135), Research, Calicut, India1 Feb 2019 - present

CERTIFICATIONS

  • PhD
    University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom22 Mar 2018
    Social capital in end of life care
  • MSc
    King's College London, London, United Kingdom5 Jan 2009 - 6 Jan 2011
    Palliative Care and Policy
  • MBBS
    University College London, London, United Kingdom3 Sep 2001 - 23 Jul 2004
  • BA Medical Sciences
    University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom5 Oct 1998 - 29 Jun 2001
    Emmanuel College

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 3 Good Health and Well Being

FIELDS OF RESEARCH