Professor Joe Sawyer

Joe is Visiting Senior Fellow in End of Life Care within the Integrated Care Academy. Joe also works with the Institute of Health and Wellbeing. Joe is a palliative care consultant at St Elizabeth Hospice, Ipswich. He has a passion for developing the fields of public health palliative care, compassionate communities, and social approaches to death, dying and loss. He completed his undergraduate medical training at Imperial College London before holding the position of academic clinical fellow in palliative medicine at University College London. In 2020 he was awarded an Alzheimer’s Society Clinical Training Fellowship to research the role of compassionate communities for people affected by dementia. This led to his PhD which was awarded in 2024. Joe’s ongoing research focusses on integrative models of care that build links between statutory and non-statutory services whilst building community capacity to provide better care and support towards the end of life.