• 4:45–5:25pm – Alexander Aldarondo Jiménez (Puerto Rico) – From Silence to Sovereignty: End-of-Life Doula Work as Cultural Transformation in Puerto Rico
• 5:30–6:00pm – Discussion and Closing Remarks

• 3:00–3:50pm – Panel Discussion – Creative and Collective Approaches to Generating Knowledge about End-of-Life Doulas
• 3:50–4:00pm – Break / Online Chat
• 4:00–4:40pm – Jennifer Mallmes (Canada) – How We Die: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of End-of-Life Care Goals

• 2:05–2:45pm – Sofia Plonsky & Catalina Mahecha (Ecuador & Colombia) – Mapping the Growth of End-of-Life Doulas in Latin America
• 2:45–3:00pm – Break / Online Chat

• 9:20–9:55pm – Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A
• 9:55–10:00pm – Closing Remarks

Saturday, September 6, 2025
• 1:00–1:20pm – Welcome & Overview
• 1:20–2:00pm – Dr Emma Clare (UK) – Beyond Metrics: Evaluating End-of-Life Doulas Without Losing Ourselves in the System

• 7:40–7:50pm – Break / Online Chat
• 7:50–8:30pm – Dr Amber Thompson (USA) – Emergence of End-of-Life Doulas: A Social Movement Perspective• 8:35–9:10pm – Dr Jodi Hall (Canada) – Doing DeathCare Differently: A Multi-Phase Research Project
• 9:10–9:20pm – Break

Friday, September 5, 2025
• 6:00–6:15pm – Welcome & Introduction
• 6:15–6:55pm – Dr Marian Krawczyk (UK) – Establishing Research Priorities for End-of-Life Doula Practice
• 7:00–7:40pm – Dr Amy Dellinger Page (USA) – Challenging Death: Barriers to End-of-Life Doula Care

This is an online event, with different start/stop times on each day to accommodate global timezones and attendees, so check your calendars carefully on both days.

See you there!

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Rush also served on the boards of the National Home Funeral Alliance and the Green Burial Council. She is very active in social justice issues, examining implicit bias, health disparities, and cultural humility, and feels that doulas are needed in every community. #EOLD #EOLDIRG

Rush co-founded and served as first president of the National End-of-life Doula Alliance (USA) and co-founded and served as vice-chair of the NHPCO End-of-life Doula Council.

Rush began her career as a homebirth midwife in 1980, was a hospice nurse, and since 2009 has been a natural death care educator, including home funeral, green burial, end-of-life doulas, and advance care planning.

JEnnifer's current area of interest is death literacy specific to children and youth and more specifically within the Jewish community.

Jennifer has spent most of her career as a technical recruiter (in the UK and Canada) and views her end-of-life studies as continuation of the guiding principle of treating and supporting people with dignity, compassion, and respect at all of life’s stages. #EOLD #EOLDIRG #research

Based in York UK, Emma describes herself as an activist and nature lover with a passion for bringing death and dying out of hospitals and back into compassionate communities wherever possible.

Emma's previous research explored how healthcare professionals’ own death anxiety can be a barrier to them providing high quality end of life care. #EOLD #EOLDIRG #research

Jennifer’s passion for quality end-of-life care has inspired her to empower others to consciously live and die well; she has also worked in community home care where she found fulfilment in helping support people to remain at home nearing the end of life.