The WHO collaborating centre for public health palliative care programs: an innovative approach of palliative care development.
The designation of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (Barcelona, Spain) as World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Public Health Palliative Care Programmes (WHOCC-ICO) in February 2008 turns the institution into the first ever center of international reference in regards to palliative care implementation from a public health perspective. The center aims to provide support to countries willing to develop palliative care programs, to identify models of success, to support WHO's policies, and to generate and spread evidence on palliative care. This article describes the WHOCC-ICO's contribution in the implementation of public health palliative care programs and services. The center's main features and future actions are emphasized. At the end of thePhyllis Featherstone

Bio/Statement

Phyllis J. Featherstone is a painter/printmaker/photographer living and working as an artist in New York City.

She began her life as an artist in childhood while studying music and art in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. She majored in Fine Arts at American University where she graduated with a BA degree. She taught art in the Alexandria, Viriginia public schools. Prior to moving to NYC she exhibited paintings and drawings extensively in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

In New York she studied photography at the Art Lab on Staten Island and also continued her printmaking studies there. She has exhibited her photographs and etchings/lithographs locally and in some shows in Virginia. She has picked up where she left off as a painter and considers it her primary media.

“Creating art nourishes