Professor David Currow has contributed internationally to the ongoing development of palliative and supportive care.

He is one of the 10 most published palliative care researchers in the world, and has attracted competitive funding and contract work worth more than $70million.His research is now directly influencing clinical practice, policy and funding around the world. He set up and continues to lead the world’s largest collaborative clinical trials group doing phase III studies in palliative care. Most importantly, his research can be shown to be improving the care of people at the end of life internationally.