Rose Miranda

Rose Miranda is a post-doctoral fellow of the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) which is the most competitive national research funding agency in Belgium. She holds a PhD degree in Social Health Science that she obtained within INDUCT, a prestigious and highly-competitive European Union-funded Marie-Skłodowska Curie Actions Innovative Training Network. Her PhD thesis focuses on multi-country descriptive and interventional research on palliative care for older people with dementia. Further, she holds a Research Master in Global Health and an Honour’s Bachelor in Health Science degrees from VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands and a Nursing bachelor degree from the Philippines. She also had practical experience working as a nursing aid in the Netherlands. Currently, she is also involved in numerous, large-scale national and international research projects aiming to develop and evaluate innovative and sustainable care models for older people, including those with dementia (FWO post-doctoral fellowship project), cancer (Horizon Europe project) and other life-limiting illnesses. She is also a core member of the European Association for Palliative Care Reference Group on Ageing and Palliative Care. In the past, she was a dementia researcher within PACE “Palliative Care for Older People”, a collaborative research project involving 12 EU partners, funded under the EU FP7 Health programme.

Scientific expertise: 

• Palliative care and end-of-life care
• Dementia and frailty
• Cancer
• Health services research
• Quantitative research