HSRAANZ October 2025 Webinar - Enhancing person-centric advance care planning with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds affected by cancer

📅 Date: Thursday, 23 OCTOBER 2025

🕰️ Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (AEST)

📍 Location: Online (Zoom)

🎙️Topic: Enhancing person-centric advance care planning with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds affected by cancer.

Advance care planning (ACP) describes the process of supporting individuals at any age or stage of health to consider and share their personal values, life goals, and preferences regarding future health care. Engaging in ACP is associated with better-quality of care in which people receive care in lines with their wishes, values and preferences. However, evidence suggests that people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds often have lower uptake of ACP impacting delivery of person-centric care at the end-of-life for these populations. This webinar will discuss findings form a three-year funded project called the iCanCarePlan Project that aimed to enhance the uptake of advance care planning with people from CALD backgrounds affected by cancer.

🗣️ Presented by: Ashfaq Chauhan

Dr Ashfaq Chauhan (PhD) is a research fellow and co-ordinator of the Healthcare Engagement and Equity Research stream within the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation based at Macquarie University. He is a physiotherapist by background with over a decade of clinical experience in Australian healthcare system with training in health management and public health. Dr Chauhan is primarily developing a program of work that is equity focused, especially in relation to patient safety and quality related health outcomes for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities and their engagement in healthcare. As a mixed-method researcher, he uses multi-method approaches including co-design that is targeted for CALD communities to develop interventions with these communities to increase their healthcare engagement and improve outcomes. He has developed and delivered innovative tools that have received recognition through awards nationally and internationally.