Rachel Chambers

Rachel Chambers is a Cicely Saunders International PhD Training Fellow and NIHR Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at King’s College London, affiliated with the Cicely Saunders Institute within the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. She holds dual roles as a Research Project and Coordination Assistant and has been with King’s since 2018.

Education: BSc in Psychology (University of Westminster, 2016), MSc in Clinical Mental Health Sciences (UCL, 2017 distinction). Current research focuses on palliative care innovations during pandemics, healthcare policy integration, and symptom management in terminal illness.

Research interests include patient outcome metrics, evidence-based policy for integrated care systems, and pandemic response strategies in healthcare. Her work has analyzed global palliative care adaptations during COVID-19, including service equity for ethnic minorities and volunteer role evolution.

Key publications (2020-2025) focus on pandemic healthcare trajectories, symptom management in terminal illness, and cost analysis in dementia care. She co-leads projects like CovPall (palliative care pandemic response evaluation) and Better End of Life (UK death/bereavement experiences).

Awards include prestigious fellowships from Cicely Saunders International and NIHR. Her grants include HDR UK funding for pandemic data linkage projects (2021).

Labs/teams: Core member of CovPall consortium and collaborator on longitudinal health studies like CVD-COVID-UK. Active in multidisciplinary teams addressing palliative care policy and pandemic preparedness.