The Sunflower- Palliative Care Podcasts

Join guest host Dr. Krithika in our series on leadership, as she chats with Dr. Barbara Da Silva about how to lead change.

Our third of four episodes all about leadership: Join Dr. Krithika Rao and Vinutha Suresh as they talk about leadership from the lens of the development of a bereavement program.

Join guest host Dr. Spandana Rayala as she chats with Dr. Liza Naranjo about the growth and development of pediatric palliative care fellowship programs as part of leadership training with the Sunflower network.

Join us for this first in a multi episode series about leadership in children's palliative care. Dr. Spandana Rayala chats with Dr. Krithika Rao about the Sunflower leadership project and its impact on her work.

We honour International Childhood Cancer day. Come on tour of pediatric palliative care programs in India; we visit Varanasi and speak with Dr. Pallavi Singh, and then on to Hyderabad where we spoke with Dr. Gayatri Palat to talk about pediatric oncology care in India and the growth of pediatric palliative care.

Join host Rachel in her chat with Anu Savio, a nurse from India who is passionate about increasing the training and support for nurses globally in providing pediatric palliative care.

Rachel had a chance to chat with some of the leadership at Two Worlds about what they have seen happen or change in 2025 and what they hope for in 2026! Wishing you all a happy new year. Stay tuned for more episodes in 2026

Rachel had a chat with a PhD nurse Tara, who started a palliative care movement in the small kingdom of Bhutan after witnessing untreated pain and suffering. Listen to her remarkable story of where she started and where things are going for palliative care in Bhutan

Host Rachel Neufeld sits down to chat with Dr. Fraser Black. Dr. Black works with the Palliative Outreach Resource Team (PORT) in Victoria (Canada) and is a clinical professor with the UBC Faculty of Medicine . For more than 20 years, he has supported palliative care initiatives internationally in Brazil, India, Nepal and Tanzania. Dr. Black is a former medical director at Victoria Hospice .We cha...

Host Rachel Neufeld, speaks with Dr. Nusrat Jahan in Bangladesh, exploring her career choices, and her passion for the pediatric palliative care fellowship and what it means for her practice in the future.

Nurse Practitioner Camara van Breemen chats with Vineela Rapelli, Chief program officer at Pain Relief and Palliative Care Society in Hyderabad India. They talk about how she came to work in palliative care, and some impactful stories of why she does the work she does.

Rachel Neufeld chats with Ben Carrol, a PhD student, nurse and researcher, in this final episode of the 5 part series, exploring how trans and gender diverse nurses engage with concepts of binary gender in nursing education and practice, and how practitioners can approach their care of children and youth who identify as being a part of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Below are some links to some of the re...

Host Rachel Neufeld chats with Dr Ripu Minhas, a developmental pediatrician at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics. They explore how diverse sociolinguistic identities impact how information is shared and received and how it can impact care of children. NewsletterSign Up:   http://tinyurl.com/ourkidshealth Website: https://kidshealthnetwork.org/  ...

Join host Camara van Breemen in conversation with nurse, counsellor and healthcare administrator Susan Poitras as they explore Equity in Pediatric Palliative Care: Cultural humility and care considerations for Indigenous children, families and communities. Susan has worked in pediatric palliative care with patients and families as a Registered Nurse, Child Psychotherapist and Registered Clinical C...

In the second part of this five part series, Rachel Neufeld chats with Rachel Martens about accessing Children's palliative care in the context of disability. Rachel makes her home out in Calgary, Alberta where she spends her time with her spouse of over 20 years. She works as a knowledge broker, science communicator and storyteller. Sharing her experiences in healthcare and in the disability...

Join host Rachel Neufeld  in conversation with Dr. Naheed Dosani. Dr. Dosani is a Palliative Care Physician, with the Department of Family & Community Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto; Founder & Lead, Palliative Education And Care for the Homeless (PEACH), Inner City Health Associates; Medical Director/Health Equity Lead, Kensington Hospice/Kensington Health; Healt...

Join host Rachel Neufeld  in conversation with Dr. Mark Stoltenberg, Medical Director of the home-based palliative care program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in the United States. Rachel is one of our regular hosts, a TWCC volunteer and a nurse practitioner at Canuck Place Children's Hospice. https://doctors.massgeneralbrigham.org/specia...

Join Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration Director Camara van Breemen in conversation with Dr. Gayatri Palat, Professor of Palliative Medicine at Mehdi Nawaz Jung Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Centre in Telangana, India. Dr. Gayatri is also a founding member of the Pain and Relief Palliative Care Society in Hyderabad and TWCC's  program director in India. Camara, Director of community c...

Join Two Worlds' Camara van Breemen, a nurse practitioner at Canuck Place Children's Hospice in Vancouver, Canada, in conversation with ICPCN's Professor Julia Downing as they talk about building children's palliative care capacity globally. https://icpcn.org/

In the final episode of our series on research in Children's Palliative Care, join Rachel Neufeld, a nurse practitioner and Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration volunteer, in conversation with nursing researcher Gail Andrews, research manager at Canuck Place Children's Hospice, as they discuss translating knowledge into clinical care.

Join Rachel Neufeld as she speaks with Dr Manon Ranger, a nurse and researcher, at British Columbia Children's Hospital Research Institutes.

Host Rachel Neufeld interviews Dr. Hal Sidon from Canuck Place about experiences with research in the field of children's palliative care.

Dr Natasha Datoo speaks with Dr Krishna Sagar Sharma about his experiences developing and Implementing a National Children’s Palliative Care Training Package for doctors and nurses in Nepal

In this episode, Dr. Md Shaidur Rahman from Bangladesh reflects on his experiences in the Children's Palliative Care Leadership Program, changing the focus from curing to also holistically caring for children with serious illness.

In the 2nd of this 4 part series, Dr Natasha Datoo speaks with Roshani Laxmi Tuitui, an experienced Nurse Leader in Nepal, about her experiences learning and developing her leadership skills as she develops a national children's palliative care training program. This training program was recently featured on eHospice https://ehospice.com/inter_childrens_posts/development-of-national-paediatric-pal...