Adelina Comas-Herrera is an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow within CPEC at LSE and was co-lead of the STRiDE project. She is the Principal Investigator of the STRiDE England project and the Social Care COVID Recovery and Resilience research project. She led the LTCcovid.org initiative. Previously she was academic project manager of the Modelling Dementia (MODEM) research project which aimed to estimate the impact, in terms of costs and quality of life, of making interventions that are known to work for people with dementia and their carers more widely available by 2040. She has been a consultant for the WHO, working on the development of a tool for countries to self-evaluate their long-term care systems. She has previously worked on making projections of future long-term care expenditure for the UK and other countries, and also on evaluating the potential role of private insurance and private/public partnerships in long-term care financing.