CHeBA Visiting Lecture Series presents Professor Jaime Miranda, Head of School of the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine & Health
Dealing with global inequity in dementia prevention research: lessons for low- and middle-income countries
Dementia is the leading cause of death among women in Australia, and the second leading cause of death overall. With close to 57 million people worldwide with a diagnosis of dementia, there has never been a more critical time to better understand the ageing brain. Professor Jaime Miranda’s talk will consider the global inequity in dementia prevention research – specifically looking at what lessons have been learned that can be applied to low – and middle-income countries. His previous research has been on shared risk factors for dementia, and largely concentrated on prevention.
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We are privileged to host Professor Jaime Miranda, Head of School of the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine & Health. His priority as Head of the School, a role he formally commenced in April 2023, is to enhance Australia’s international profile for high-quality scientific research, which he says is currently undersold on the world stage.
Prior to his move to Sydney, he was a Full Professor at the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. His work brings together epidemiological and health policy aspects of chronic non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on obesity, hypertension, diabetes and mental health.
In 2012, Professor Miranda was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. In 2014, he was listed as one of the 30 scientists under 40 who are redefining science in the Latin American region. His research and academic trajectory, profiled in The Lancet, has been described in Nature as a "model of interdisciplinary research that is scarce in any part of the world".
Professor Miranda trained in medicine at UPCH and earned a PhD in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He holds appointments as Professor of Global Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Lown Scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, and Distinguished Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health in Sydney, Australia.
