**About the Editors**

### **Georg Bollig**

Georg Bollig MD MAS PhD DEAA is a physician and researcher. After medical studies at the universities of Cologne (Germany), Vienna (Austria) and Seattle (USA), he became a specialist in anaesthesiology, pain therapy and palliative care. He received a Master's Degree in Palliative Care and Organisational Ethics from the University Klagenfurt/IFF Vienna. His PhD at the University of Bergen, Norway was about Palliative Care, ethical challenges and end-of-life decision-making in nursing homes. Georg has done scientific work in various fields and has published books and scientific articles on anaesthesiology, pain therapy, emergency medicine, nursing home medicine, palliative care and ethics. He has been a board member of the Norwegian Palliative Association from 20092016 and is speaker of a working group on Palliative Care in long-term care facilities of the Hospiz- und Palliativverband Schleswig-Holstein and a member of a working group of the German association for palliative medicine on palliative medicine for non-cancer patients. From 2016 to 2022, he has been working as a senior consultant in Palliative Medicine at the University hospital of Southern Jutland and as Associate Professor in Palliative Care at the University of Southern Denmark. Currently, he works as senior consultant in palliative medicine and head of Palliative Medicine at the Academic teaching hospital Helios Klinikum Schleswig in Germany. In addition to his clinical work, Georg is a research fellow at the Department of Palliative Medicine, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Cologne, Germany. Georg has first published the idea of a Last Aid Course as measure of public palliative care education (PPCE) and is the leader of the International Last Aid working group. His main research interests are public palliative care education (PPCE), Last Aid Courses and tele-palliative care.

### **John Rosenberg**

John Rosenberg RN BN MPallC PhD FPCNA is a Registered Nurse and health care academic. His clinical background is in community-based palliative care, conducted in Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia. He has a Master's Degree in Palliative Care from Flinders University and was awarded a PhD from Queensland University of Technology in 2007 for the first ever doctoral study of Health Promoting Palliative Care. John is a longstanding contributor to the advancement of Public Health Palliative Care, including the Death Literacy Index and partnering methodologies for collaboration between health care services and communities. John was President of Public Health Palliative Care International from 2019 to October 2023. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, where his teaching, research and engagement portfolios focus on palliative care for older people, aged care, and community development approaches to Compassionate Communities. John is a Foundation Fellow of Palliative Care Nurses Australia.
