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In March 2015, the initial investors for the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF) were announced at the World Health Organization Global Dementia Conference, where Health Ministers from over 60 countries attended the Conference to meet leaders from other multinational organizations, NGOs, philanthropic organizations and technical experts.

We celebrated the launch of the...

In 2013, the UK hosted the G8 Dementia Summit and subsequently coordinated global activity around Dementia. One strand of work has led to the publication, in July 2015, of Raj Long’s independent report Finding a path for a cure for Dementia: An independent report into an integrated approach to dementia...

In order to achieve the G8 Summit Commitment to finding a disease-modifying therapy or cure for dementia by 2025, it became clear that steps would need to be taken to ‘mitigate the market failure’ that is undermining dementia research and drug development efforts. The ‘Integrated Development’ initiative was therefore established...