Interests
Kate Gordon, MSW
Healthy Policy Analyst; Lecturer
We need to take a multi-disciplinary life-course approach to cognitive health, seeking and implementing scalable solutions to reduce risk across the lifespan and providing accessible treatment and care support those living with dementia and their caregivers.
Current Work
Kate is a health policy analyst who consults with governments, NGOs and private companies to develop evidence-based programmatic and policy strategies to reduce the risk of dementia and improve the lives of people with dementia and their caregivers.
Personal Hero
Saul Alinsky
Words of Strength
Making connections
Vision
Kate believes we need to take a multi-disciplinary life-course approach to cognitive health, seeking and implementing scalable solutions to reduce risk across the lifespan and providing accessible treatment and care support those living with dementia and their caregivers.
Strategy
As a health policy analyst, Kate's work focuses on advancing translational research on dementia and risk reduction interventions and developing policy strategies to fulfill the mandates of the WHO Global Action Plan on Dementia.
Motivation
Kate co-leads GBHI's health-policy curriculum, designed to provide Atlantic Fellows with practical tools to connect their practice to policy change opportunities from the local to the global levels. She encourages fellows to identify their role in global advocacy.
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