Libby Sallnow is a registrar in Palliative Medicine at Barts and the London NHS Trust. She has a keen interest in the public health approach to palliative care and spent a year working with the community based palliative care movement in Kerala, India.Suresh Kumar is the Director of Institute of Palliative Medicine in Kerala, India. He is also a consultant in Palliative Medicine at the World Health Organisation Demonstration Project in Palliative Care. Dr Kumar has been part of the team which initiated and developed Neighbourhood Network in Palliative Care (NNPC), a large network of community owned palliative care initiatives in Kerala.Allan Kellehear is Professor of Sociology at the… University of Bath. He was formerly the Foundation Professor of Palliative Care at La Trobe University and was director of Australia�s first policy and practice palliative care unit in a school of public health.