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Assistant Professor at Brock University, Ontario Canada. My research is focused on Sport for Development and Peace, and the role that sport can play in promoting environmental sustainability.
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Researcher in adult social care and aligned topics, including dementia and mental health. Experience in knowledge translation and co-production.
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Lorna Roe is a Research Assistant Professor at the Centre for Health Policy and Management in Trinity College Dublin.
Lorna is an Alumnus of the HRB SPHERE programme, completing her PHD in Health Services Research and Population Health Sciences in Trinity College Dublin in Ireland 2015. The PhD focused on improving care for older adults living with frailty. It was a mixed methods study, using data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) in addition to qualitative interviews. Previous work experience includes Social Policy Officer in Age Action, where she worked in the Community and Voluntary Pillar of the Governments' Social Partnership process.
There are a number of strands to Lorna's research interests including:
Gerontology; ageing trajectories, complexity of needs, frailty and cognitive decline, design of care pathways, healthy ageing and self-determination for older adults.
Health economic analysis; health service utilisation and access, particularly econometric analyses to estimate the patterns and costs of frailty and cognitive decline among older adults.
Policy analysis; using a whole systems approach to examine access/quality of health and social care for older adults and healthy ageing.
Analysis of large datasets, survey, census and administrative data and international comparability of longitudinal ageing datasets.
An emerging research area of interest includes exploring how diverse identity impacts on healthy ageing, including the appropriateness and accessibility of health and social care services.
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Maria is currently a research officer within the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her research focuses on the area of ageing and dementia. Her main research interests are prevention, inequalities in accessing older-age prevention, and improving healthcare for older people and for people with dementia.
She was previously a visiting academic at the University of Oxford (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing) and also worked as an advisor for Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) and as a researcher at King’s College London (Global Observatory for Ageing and Dementia Care). Maria has also worked as a researcher and project manager at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and the Greek National School of Public Health.
Maria is co-author of the World Alzheimer Report 2016 on “Improving healthcare for people living with dementia: coverage, quality, and costs now and in the future” and of variou reports published by Public Health England on midlife risk factors for dementia. She is participating in many dementia and ageing-related research projects.
She has an MSc in International Health Policy (LSE), an MSc in Psychology & Counselling (University of Sheffield), and a BSc in Psychology (Middlesex University).
Prior to joining CPEC, Maria worked for several years in clinical practice as director of a dementia day care centre (Alzheimer’s Hellas). Her team was nominated by the University of Stirling (The International Excellence Awards 2010) as “highly commended” for developing innovative programmes of non-pharmacological interventions for people with dementia.
She is currently a member of the Emerging Research Board at the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC-UK), a member of the Scientific Committee of the Greek Institute for the economics of Ageing and a member of World Young Leaders in Dementia (WYLD). She also collaborates with the Greek think tank DIKTYO, a network for reform in Greece and Europe.
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Academic working on long-term care and dementia care policy. Editor of the LTCcovid.org website and co-lead of the Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries project.
Background in economics, with a special interest in long-term care financing and care systems.
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Working on long-term care and health economics.
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Secondary school teacher from New Zealand, invested in global citizenship education. Postgraduate student who recently completed Master's dissertation (first class honours) from the University of Auckland with a focus on how secondary schools approach and define GCED.
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I am a postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute investigating community energy (business) models.
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Sociologist, master in educational sciences, multimedia applications for education certified. UNESCO Consultant. Director of Science and Dialogue Group. Lecturer of Universidad de Chile and Universidad Andrés Bello. Specialized on measurement and training on Social and Emotional Learning.
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My name is Claudia Cadenasso, current Senior Admin Assistant in the Regional Office located in Santiago, Chile. I am a professional translator, specialized in strategic communications and risk management with aprox. 23 years expertise in different UN Agencies. I have worked in Human Resources, Protocol, Security and Communications in FAO for 20 years, and since 2017 I am part of UNSCO's team. Having worked under the UN wing at different levels gave me a strong basis to give my best at work, strengthening teamwork, respect, commitment, gender equality and proactivity in my daily work. In fact, I am proud to be part of the UN family.