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April 2025
This dialogue on 25 April 2025 brings together expert voices from across the Caribbean and diaspora to explore how to build policy momentum, raise public awareness, and drive system-level change in response to the Caribbean’s growing dementia burden. The meeting is chaired by Dr Ishtar Govia Founder & CEO of Amagi and Dr Horace Cox Acting Director of Surveillance, Disease Prevention and Control at the Caribbean Public Health Agency
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May 2025
The 2025 Satellite Summit takes place in Lima, Peru on May 13 2025. The meeting brings together policy makers, academics, industry and avocates and will focus on the public policy landscape in Latin America and the Caribbean. Across research, prevention, awareness and care how we make advances.
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July 2025
This virtual dialogue on 8 July 2025 will explore the opportunties and challenges of brain health and prevention. The opportunities to advance prevention in India and the lessons that can be drawn from global experience. It is chaired by Professor Suvarna Alladi, Professor of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, and Professor Miia Kivipelto, Professor in Clinical Geriatrics at Karolinska Institutet.
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September 2025
This virtual dialogue on 16 September will explore the early lessons from the implementation of diagnostics and treatments in clinical settings and the implications for countries like India. Chaired by Dr Heather M. Snyder, is senior vice president, Medical & Scientific Relations, at the Alzheimer’s Association and Professor Suvarna Alladi, Professor of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore.
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Past events
Read more about World Dementia Councli events that have taken place around the world in person and virtually in previous years. These include in-person WDC summits taking place in London and Japan, dementia side events at the G7 health ministers meeting and side events at international conferences. The Council also health a series of dialogues on different aspects of dementia policy, including clinical trials, the development of biomarkers and treatments, data sharing, technology and care among other topics.
The World Dementia Council brings together global policymakers and leaders in dementia to explore solutions to new and emerging challenges facing people living with dementia. The Council works to promote a shared understanding about the challenge facing the field and how to make progress. The first treatments mark a significant shift for the field.
For the first time Alzheimer's Disease is treatable. Even if the impact of treatments is limited and, at the moment, is available in only a few countries, this signals the direction of travel for the field. Over the years ahead there will be more treatments, for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, and to both manage symptoms and to modify the course of the diease. These will be easier and cheaper to deliver and bring greater benefits for patients and caregivers. At the same time understanding about to prevent disease is increasing. As science advances prevention, diagnosis and treatment the public policy challenge becomes implementing them in health systems. And implementing them in a way that doesn't increase national, or global, inequity.
Treatments will not remove the need for care and support. Whether that is for the person with dementia or their caregiver this is a huge area of unmet need. Formal and informal care in impact and in costs are fundamental to lived experience of dementia today. Whether through health and social care systems, funding, or technology, it is possible to deliver interventions that have impact.
The Council is exploring these through virtual and in-person events. Along with the annual WDC Summit taking place in London, the Council is hosting virtual and in person events looking at the impact of dementia in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Council is also hosting a series of virtual dialogues for global experts to understand the impact of treatments and explore how progress can be accelerated. Read more about forthcoming events taking place around the world in person and virtually below.