The GPS aims to support innovative research addressing palliative care law and policy. Specific focus areas for current and future work include, but are not limited to, pediatric palliative care, strengthening the specialty workforce, palliative care in Native communities, innovative payment reform, and palliative care in carceral settings.
Recent GPS-related publications can be found below.
Publications
- Elle Rothermich and Eugene Rusyn, Improving Data Collection: An introduction to comprehensive case review, Solomon Center White Paper, Building a Strong Foundation for Pediatric Palliative Care in Connecticut Series (Nov. 2025)
- Na Ouyang, Ling Han, Wendy Jiang, Stacie Sinclair, Eugene Rusyn, and Shelli Feder, Trends in State Palliative Care Legislation Across the US, JAMA Network Open (Oct. 2025)
- Cris Villalonga-Vivoni, After her son’s painful death, a Cheshire mother highlights Connecticut’s pediatric hospice gap, CT Insider (Oct. 2025)
- Claire Marshall, Claudia Virdun, and Jane L. Phillips, Strengthening care for adults with palliative care needs in high-income rural communities: a global policy environmental scan, BMC Palliative Care (Oct. 2025)
- Elle Rothermich and Eugene Rusyn, Connecticut needs broad access to pediatric palliative care, Hartford Courant (Aug. 2025)
- Brystana G. Kaufman, Yurika Sakai, Tamryn Fowler Gray, and Marian Grant, A Policy Framework For States Seeking To Scale Palliative Care, Health Affairs Forefront (June 2025)
- Wendy Jiang (Research Fellow), Elle Rothermich (Senior Research Fellow), and Eugene Rusyn (Senior Academic Fellow), Building a Strong Foundation for Pediatric Palliative Care in Connecticut: Establishing a Statewide Coverage Pathway & Expanding Primary Palliative Care Education for Pediatric Clinicians, Solomon Center White Paper (June 2025)
- Soraya Fereydooni, Sarina Fereydooni (Solomon Center Research Assistant), Lauren Williams, Avanti Verma, Benjamin Judson, Association of Policy With Palliative Care Uptake in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer, Head & Neck (May 2025)
- Amanda Kay Sedlacek, Sarah Mollman, Michele Snyders, and Michelle Gierach, The State of Palliative Care in South Dakota, South Dakota Medicine (Nov. 2024)
- Joseph J. Fins (Visiting Professor of Law and Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics, and the Law), Is Medical Assistance in Dying Part of Palliative Care?, JAMA (September 2024)
- Stacie Sinclair, Shelli Feder, Eugene Rusyn, The Future of State Workforce Policy in Palliative Care, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (May 2024)
- Shelli L Feder, Dena Schulman-Green, Jennifer Huer, Laura Hoffman, Lynette B. Martins, Stacie Sinclair, Abbe R Gluck (YLS ‘00), Euguene Rusyn (YLS ‘17), Development of the Palliative Care Law and Policy GPS to Assess National Policies in Palliative Care, Journal of Palliative Medicine (Aug. 2023)
- Eugene Rusyn, Shelli Feder, Rosette Nguyen, Carolyn Lye, Dena Schulman-Green, Stacie Sinclair, Using the Palliative Care Law and Policy GPS Tracker to Evaluate and Shape State Policy, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (June 2022)
- YLS Today, Solomon Center and CAPC Launch Innovative Palliative Care Policy-Tracking Database (September 2021)
- CAPC Policy Blog, Track Policies in Your State with the Palliative Care Policy GPS (August 2021)
- Carolyn T. Lye (YLS ‘22), Eugene Rusyn (YLS ‘17), Shelli Feder, Dena J. Schulman-Green, Stacie Sinclair, and Abbe R. Gluck (YLS ‘00), The Palliative Care State Policy GPS: A New Tool to Track State Policies on Palliative Care, The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (Mar. 2021)