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“We need a paradigm shift in how healthcare professionals, institutions and systems view bereavement care,” said Wendy G. Lichtenthal, PhD, FT, FAPOS, associate professor of public health sciences at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and the paper’s corresponding author. “We must shift bereavement care from an afterthought to a public health priority.”