About

Short bio:

I work at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at the Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science.

I am the director of the new Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC), a platform to support cross-national learning on how to improve and strengthen Long-Term Care systems, building on the previous LTCcovid.org website, which brought together international experts on long-term care, sharing data and reports analysing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term care systems.

I am currently working on the STRiDE England project, which seeks to understand inequalities in dementia care at individual, local and national level and the Social Care Covid-19 Recovery and Resilience project, looking to learn lessons for the English social care system from emerging evidence and international experiences. I am also part of the team providing technical support to the Irish Commission for Care for Older People.

I do research on economic and policy aspects of the care, treatment and support of people with dementia, and long-term care financing. I was co-lead of the Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries (STRiDE) project, a multi-national research project funded by the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund involving Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, and South Africa.

I have previously worked on the “Modelling Dementia” (MODEM) research project which aimed to estimate the impact, in terms of costs and quality of life, of making evidence-based interventions for dementia more widely available in England.

I was co-author of the World Alzheimer Report 2016, which considered how to improve health care coverage for people living with dementia, as well as the World Alzheimer Reports for 2019 and 2024 which focused on dementia stigma and awareness. I was member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Guideline Development Group for Risk reduction guidelines for cognitive decline and dementia and have been a consultant for WHO’s Department of Ageing and Life Course and the Inter-American Development Bank.

A list of my academic publications is available here.

All the views expressed in this blog are my own and not those of my employers or collaborators.