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Dr Marjolein Gysels
Senior Research Fellow
Marjolein Gysels completed an MA at the University of Ghent in Belgium and received a PhD in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 1996. She has carried out research in D.R. Congo on Swahili and oral literature. She worked for the TANESA project on AIDS in Tanzania on female infertility, and for the MRC (UK) Programme on AIDS in Uganda on commercial sex work. At King's College London, she collaborated on the PROMOTE Project, and she worked on the Research Evidence Manual which is part of the NICE Guidance for supportive and palliative care for those affected by cancer.
Marjolein joined Cicely Saunders International in September 2004 to lead the Improving Breathlessness Programme in conjunction with Professor Higginson and Dr Sara Booth (Cambridge).
