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A WHO blueprint for action to reshape dementia research

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The World Health Organization (WHO) blueprint for dementia research provides a roadmap to addressing the challenges in the field and reshaping our approach to dementia research. This Comment focuses on how to operationalize the drivers of research highlighted in the blueprint to make research more equitable, impactful and global.

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Fig. 1: Research themes and drivers of dementia research covered in the WHO blueprint for dementia research.

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The WHO gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Gates Ventures for the development of the WHO blueprint for dementia research. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this article and they do not necessarily represent the views, decisions or policies of the institutions with which they are affiliated.

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  1. Brain Health Unit, Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    Rodrigo Cataldi, Neerja Chowdhary, Katrin Seeher & Tarun Dua

  2. Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Perminder S. Sachdev & Adam Bentvelzen

  3. Science Division, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    Vasee Moorthy

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Cataldi, R., Sachdev, P.S., Chowdhary, N. et al. A WHO blueprint for action to reshape dementia research. Nat Aging 3, 469–471 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-023-00381-6

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