Emiliano Albanese is a consultant on the STRiDE project. He is a physician with an FMH in public health, an MSc in public health and an MD-PhD in clinical neuropsychology. Emiliano is Assistant Professor of public mental health in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in mental health at the University of Geneva. He worked at and still collaborates with the Institute of Psychiatry (King’s College London) and the National Institute on Aging (NIH, Bethesda, USA), and collaborates with the Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health; and is an active member of the ADI 10/66 group. He has collaborated with the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse in a number of activities including the WHO mhGAP and other dementia-related programmes. The focus of his research is cognitive aging and dementia and their epidemiology from a broad public health and evidence base perspective.