The Power of Technology in Alzheimer’s Early Detection: A Roadmap for Global Implementation

The Spring Meeting of the DAC Healthcare System Preparedness Learning Laboratory, 21 June 2023

On June 21st, the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative (DAC) Healthcare System Preparedness Learning Laboratory convened 350+ stakeholders from 50+ countries and 300+ organizations to share lessons based on the 19 early detection initiatives in 12 countries across DAC flagship pilot sites and grant programs.

Scaling up early detection of cognitive impairment promises to transform the global response to Alzheimer’s disease, especially with potential disease-modifying therapies in the pipeline and emerging data on lifestyle behaviors that can reduce risk and improve patient outcomes. Advances like blood-based biomarker tests, digital cognitive assessments, and other innovations are on the market or the near-term horizon, bringing early detection into reach for healthcare systems around the world. It’s now time for governments, healthcare systems, and innovators to move from proven efficacy in research to meaningful impact in real world clinical practice.

Click here to read DAC’s full call to action.

Speakers

• David Bates Linus Health

• Joel Braunstein C2N Diagnostics

• Hilary Evans Alzheimer’s Research UK and Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission

• Kristine Galstyan Ministry of Health, Armenia

• Drew Holzapfel
  Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative

• Kristina Malzbender Gates Ventures

• Brad O’Connor Cogstate

• Tom O’Neill Cognivue

• Phyllis Barkman Ferrell
  Davos Alzheimer's Collaborative

• Tim MacLeod
  Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative

• Simon Njuguna Ministry of Health, Kenya

• Mark Roithmayr
  Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation

• George Vradenburg
  Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative

• Kosuke Wada Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Japan

Click below to watch the full meeting.