Liz, global health and global
healing
Professor Liz Grant, Director of
the Global Health Academy and Co-Director of the University of Edinburgh Global
Compassion Initiative, gives us a global perspective on the pandemic, and its
effects on lower income countries. Liz is a palliative care specialist, and describes
the need for doctors, families and carers to be quickly trained in end-of-life
care, because there usually isn’t time to bring in specialised palliative care teams.
Liz also talks about her wok with the World Health Organisation in making
compassion the bedrock of our response to Covid19, and the prospect of changing
our language from ‘isolating’ to ‘cocooning’ the vulnerable. Liz is also
working with Religions for Peace, and envisions with faith leaders a society
that will emerge more united from this pandemic, more aware of the power of
faith and of nature in making us globally well.