Dr. Emmanuel Luyirika is the executive director of the African Palliative Care Association. He is also a board member of the World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance, a member and co-chair of WHO Technical Ad-hoc Committee on palliative care, a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Control, and vice-chair of the Council of the Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care in Africa. He has published extensively on palliative care and HIV.