Global Health Matters episode 59: January 2026
The Global Health Matters podcast Global Health Matters [https://tdr.who.int/global-health-matters-podcast] is the podcast from TDR featuring renowned experts as well as emerging voices from across the globe, with a focus on sharing perspectives from low- and middle-income countries. The podcast includes our Signature episodes as well as "Dialogues" and "Trailblazers with Garry."
Building the brain economy
Dear listener,
As development leaders gather at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference [https://pmac-2026.com/] to discuss profound shifts in global demographics, brain health is top of mind for many. Brain health influences whether people can live productive and meaningful lives and whether the economies of countries can thrive. In this episode, host Garry Aslanyan [https://www.linkedin.com/in/garry-aslanyan] is joined by two pioneers who make the case for strengthening brain capital and the brain economy. George Vredenburg is the founding chairman of the Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative, a global public-private initiative focusing on linking and scaling Alzheimer's and brain health research and delivery systems worldwide. Joining him is Rajinder Dhamija, distinguished neurologist, Professor of neurology, and Director at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences in New Delhi.
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