I am Deputy Head of Quality and Clinical Governance at Marie Curie, London. I will be researching a community-based model of scaffolding community capacity to support resource poor minoritised and marginalised palliative care patients and their family caregivers for a more equitable and culturally anchored palliative care and bereavement support provision in the UK.

I am a family caregiver with the lived experience of material hardship, social isolation and intra-cultural stigmatisation of chronic and complex co-morbidities. As a single earner working two jobs to provide for my family, I know the often unexpressed plight of the resource poor caregiver in minoritised and marginalised communities. As a public health nurse prescriber and a palliative care nurse, I have worked extensively with these communities. As a nurse researcher and a palliative care social justice advocate, I feel deeply called to address current health inequities. I aim to build a socio-economically and culturally concordant community-based peer support model for dying and bereavement.