Background Professor Jane Phillips is at the forefront of her field. She brings her considerable clinical nursing and national policy and academic expertise to deliver outcomes that change practice and enhance palliative care globally. Her interdisciplinary research program targets the delivery of care that enables people to spend more days in their place of choice, move seamlessly between care settings, and receive the best evidence-based palliative care. Jane is Emerita Professor at IMPACCT - Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through clinical research and Translation, the interdisciplinary research Centre she established in 2017 at the University of Technology Sydney. Currently, Jane holds academic appointments with Oxford Brookes University (UK), Australian National University (Canberra), Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong), University of Notre Dame (Australia), and School of Medicine, University of Sydney (NSW).