Healthcare
Healthcare settings – built as they are on caring relationships – can be the ultimate expression of compassion and help set an example for how compassionate organizations can be run. Our experts in health and healthcare are working internationally to make this happen.
Are you a Healthcare Worker who wants to see Compassion put at the Heart of your Healthcare System?
Essential Reading
Books on Compassion in Healthcare
Our Founding Organizations
Organizations Working on Compassion in Healthcare
Watch
Videos about Compassion in Healthcare
Finding Meaning and Motivation in Loss
Our compassionate cultures in Kirklees and Calderdale healthcare
How we can stop the rise in teen suicide
Mindfulness for stress teachers, Sierra Leone
Docking soon: Emergency healthcare
Bridging mindfulness, compassion, and public health in Brazil
Bringing down the walls that divide us
Supporting the Organisational Wellbeing of City of Sanctuary Sheffield
Dhobi Women’s Network: Compassion for Kenyan women care workers
Compassionate culture in the Welsh NHS
With Woman: the high stakes for a home-birth midwife in the US
Experience of human flourishing – cancer care in the Gaza Strip
Our Founding Supporters
People Working on Compassion in Healthcare from our Founding Supporters

Agnes Wong
Staff Ophthalmologist, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences
The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto

Alejandra Fritis Estay
Encargada Unidad Trast Alimentario Hospital Valdivia en Hospital Base Valdivia

Amara Jones
National Coordinator
Compassion Connectors - Sierra Leone

Amy Richards
Compassion Researcher, Public Health
Task Force for Global Health; Emory University

Andrés Gutiérrez-Carmona
Universidad de Antofagasta

Augustine Yiga
Director/Co-Founder
Training Of Rural Women in Uganda - TORUWU

Barbara Doeleman-van Veldhoven
Founder & Director
BFC Compassionate Care & Mindful Medicine

Carole Pertofsky
Director Emerita; Health Promotion Services
Stanford University

Chris Thomas
Head of the Commission on Health and Prosperity
IPPR

Chris Turner
Co-founder
Civility Saves Lives

Christina Bethell
Professor
Johns Hopkins University, Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative

Dana Yarbrough
Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Partnership for People with Disabilities
Partnership for People with Disabilities @ VCU

David Vago
President
International Society for Contemplative Research

Dawson Church
CEO/Executive Director
National Institute for Integrative Healthcare

Debbie Ling
Compassion researcher and educator
Monash University

Dee Sandhu
Founder
COVIDPEDIA LABS

Deogratias Niyizonkiza
Founder & CEO
Village Health Works

Dianne Horgan
Co-Founder and Program Director
Mindfulness and Health Institute

Dolly Anadkat
Learning Specialist
Tulane University School of Medicine

Donna Kerridge
Rongoā Māori Practitioner, Trainer and Advisor & Founder and Director
Ora New Zealand

Emma Jones
Physician, Coach, Owner
The Recharge Studio

Erik van den Brink
Co-founder
MBCL (Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living)

Euron Nicholson
Founder/Principal Practice Consultant
WellTyme

Fairouz ELHAMMAR VERGNES
Medical Doctor

Frits Koster
Mindfulness and Compassion Teacher & Author

Godfree McIntyre
Chaplain, Pastor, Life Coach & Trainer
Claremont School of Theology

Hernán Dario Carvajal Posada
Doctor

Jeff Karp
Professor
Harvard Medical School - Brigham and Women's Hospital

Joan Borysenko
Founder
Mind-Body Health Sciences, LLC

John Gillies
Co-Director, Global Compassion Initiative. Honorary Professor of General Practice
Global Compassion Initiative, Global Health Academy, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh

Joyce Wanderi
Kenya Chapter Leader
The TEARS Foundation

Kate Cavanagh
Professor of Clinical Psychology
University of Sussex

Lene Søvold
Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health Advisor, Independent Researcher

Lorraine Hobbs
Founding Director
Youth & Family Programs, UCSD Center for Mindfulness

Luis Miguel Gallardo
Founder and President
World Happiness Foundation

Magdalena Whoolery
Registered Nurse & Founder
Breastfeeding International

María Teresa Bernal Ceballos
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán

Marian Stuart
Emeritus Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Rutgers University

Mary Ann Boe
Community Relations Director
Journey Guide Project

Michael Amster
Medical Doctor / Awe Researcher / Author
The Power of Awe

Michael West
Professor
Lancaster University

Nathan Consedine
Professor of Health Psychology
University of Auckland

Neil Pakenham-Walsh
Coordinator, Healthcare Information For All
Healthcare Information For All

Nicola Harker
Compassionate Leadership Coach
Nicola Harker Coaching

Pablo Mountford
MD
Neurosoul 2.0

Paquita de Zulueta
Compassion Activist
Imperial College and Human Values in Healthcare Forum

Patricia Donohue-Porter
Professor of Nursing & Director of PhD Program
Adelphi University

Ricki Pollycove
Physician & Deep Ecologist
California Institute of Integral Studies

Robert Thurman
Writer
Tibet House US,

Robin Youngson
Founder
Somatic Compassion

Seçil Tezsezen
Psychologist/Educator/Author
WISELF Academy and Sustainable Compassion Movement

Shon Prem Bon Soeng
PhD Researcher, M.A. Clinical Psychology, Licensed Psychologist, Authorised Dharma Teacher
Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand

Somen Banerjee
Director of Public Health
London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Sunjeev Kamboj
Professor of Translational Clinical Psychology
University College London

Susan Dzimbiri
Pediatric Nurse & National Coordinator
Compassion Connectors - Malawi

Susan Henderson
Executive Director
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

Susan LePlae Miller
Founder, Speaker, Poet
Pieces of I

Tchiki Davis
Founder
The Berkeley Well-Being Institute

Tony Fernando
Psychiatrist, Sleep Specialist
Practice 92

Uwalaka Uchechukwu
National Coordinator & President
Compassion Connectors - Nigeria & Compassion Champions Initiative

Vidyamala Burch
President
The Breathworks Foundation

Yvonne Feeney
Project Manager for the Time for Dementia programme
Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Zachary Taylor
Director
Psychotherapy Networker & PESI


























