Brain Health Starts with Brain Care: A Scalable Solution to the Pandemic of Age-Related Brain Disease
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Jonathan Rosland , MD, MSc – Co-Founder, Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health; Emeritus Chief and Emeritus Medical Director, Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery (CNTR)
About the Talk
The Global Brain Care Coalition (GBCC) is an international learning health care system without walls grounded in providing people with the knowledge and tools to take action in caring for their brains — its mission is to make proactive, evidence-based brain care simple and accessible to communities worldwide to promote brain health and prevent disease. Anchored by the patient and family values, research and compassion of leading health centers around the world, the GBCC partners with communities to bring its personalized, compassionate, science-grounded approach to people everywhere.
By translating cutting-edge research into accessible tools, the GBCC empowers individuals to take proactive steps toward protecting their brain health. At the core of its approach is the Brain Care Score, a science-based, 21-point system designed to help individuals track and improve key factors such as sleep, nutrition, physical activity and mental engagement. Research shows that up to 40% of dementia cases, over 50% of strokes, and at least 35% of depression cases are preventable through lifestyle changes. Bringing together leading scientists, healthcare professionals and community advocates, the GBCC works to reduce the global burden of dementia, stroke and late-life depression. Its ambitious goal is to cut new cases by 10% in the next decade and by 30% by 2050 through education, outreach, and strategic partnerships.
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Dr. Jonathan Rosand is appointed to the J.P. Kistler Endowed Chair in Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and serves as professor of neurology at Harvard and associate member of the Broad Institute. An internationally renowned scientist, clinician, educator, mentor and visionary leader, Dr. Rosand has created enduring multidisciplinary teams that are successfully tackling some of the most pressing challenges in brain disease. His research program, launched over 20 years ago, has been a world leader in high-throughput genetic, imaging and epidemiological studies of stroke and the cognitive decline and depression that can come with it. In 2007 Dr. Rosand launched the International Stroke Genetics Consortium to bring together the world’s pre-eminent stroke investigators and created the Cerebrovascular Disease Knowledge Portal to share data widely. After founding Mass General’s Division of Neurocritical Care and building it into one of the world’s top programs, Dr. Rosand stepped down to establish the McCance Center for Brain Health with colleagues in neuroscience and psychiatry.
In 2024, he launched the Global Brain Care Coalition, leveraging his extensive global collaborations, his network of former trainees, the rigorous science performed by his team, along with the lessons he has learned from a life devoted to caring for patients. With academic medical centers, community leaders and philanthropists at its core, the Coalition is a learning healthcare network without walls that integrates communities, health and behavioral scientists, private industry, and local and regional governments who have committed to a joint goal of reducing new cases of dementia, stroke and depression by 10% in ten years and 30% by mid-century. Their strategy is grounded in the McCance Center’s Brain Care Score. Estimates are that ~40% of dementia, ~60% of stroke, and at least 35% of depression are preventable by modifying our risk factors. The Global Brain Care Coalition is a collective learning healthcare network that leverages these opportunities by scaling sustained lifestyle and behavioral change through its unparalleled community-engaging, holistic, cooperative approach, all grounded in the most rigorous science.
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