Cohort 
2020

Susanne Röhr, PhD

Clinical Psychologist, Epidemiology & Public Health Researcher

We need to broaden our perspective on the possibilities of dementia prevention, such as creating fairer, healthier, and sustainable environments.

Current Work

Susanne is an Associate Professor with the Health and Ageing Research Team (HART) at Massey University. Her work focuses on risk modification of dementia and dementia prevention.

Personal Hero

Jane Goodall

Words of Strength

Being curious

Vision

To reduce the scale of dementia, Susanne believes we need to broaden our perspective on the possibilities of dementia prevention, such as creating fairer, healthier, and sustainable environments. This needs multi-disciplinary experts and the target group to come together to find solutions.

Strategy

Currently, Susanne is mainly focused on research that aims to identify modifiable risk factors of dementia and their social determinants and to evaluate lifestyle interventions that address such factors to work against cognitive decline and dementia.

Impact

Susanne aims to connect with other fellows to learn from their approaches to tackling dementia. The intercultural and interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and experiences can help to develop and implement more effective public health measures against dementia in various communities.

Motivation

Susanne is interested in developing public health approaches for dementia prevention that help to reduce the number of future dementia cases in a fair and democratic way. Everyone should have a chance for healthy ageing, which is why we need to root for social policies that provide good and sustainable living conditions to begin with.

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