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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.
Education & Experience
Kate Gordon received her master's degree in Social Work from the University of South Carolina. She is a Health Policy Analyst and Adjunct Lecturer at the Erickson School of Aging, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is also a consultant to the US federal government, state governmental agencies and local social/health services organizations. She works with NIH-funded R01 research programs developing and updating community-based dementia caregiver interventions. She also served as the civil society liaison for Alzheimer's Disease International with the Pan American Health Organization/WHO.
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