CHeBA Annual Report 2021

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COSMIC is an international consortium to combine data from population-based longitudinal cohort studies to identify common risk factors for dementia and cognitive decline. By the end of 2021 there were 45 international studies participating in COSMIC. For a full list of studies involved, see https://cheba.unsw.edu.au/consortia/cosmic/studies The major highlights for COSMIC in 2021 include: 1. Signing an MOU with 4 new studies: a. Boston Puerto Rican Health Study; b. Framingham Heart Study; c. The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing; d. A study from Uganda. 2. Three new projects were approved, led by either CHeBA researchers or international workgroups: a. The association between diet and depression in older adults; b. Untangling the mechanistic links between heart and brain health in older populations: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted toolkit for assessing dementia risk; c. Trajectories of cognitive decline before and after stroke: an individual participant data metaanalysis from the COSMIC collaboration. 3. One paper was published: a. Hyun J, Hall CB, Katz MJ, Derby CA, Lipnicki DM, Crawford JD, Guaita A, Vaccaro R, Davin A, Kim KW, Han JW, Bae JB, Röhr S, Riedel-Heller S, Ganguli M, Jacobsen E, Hughes TF, Brodaty H, Kochan NA, Trollor J, Lobo A, Santabarbara J, Lopez-Anton R, Sachdev PS, Lipton RB; or Cohort Studies of Memory in an International Consortium (COSMIC). Education, Occupational Complexity, and Incident Dementia: A COSMIC Collaborative Cohort Study. J Alzheimers Dis. 2021 Nov 11. doi: 10.3233/JAD-210627. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34776437 4. Presentations at international conferences, including five at AAIC, by project leaders from CHeBA and external to UNSW.

c. COVID-19 study led by Sarah Baurermeister (University of Oxford), to which around 6 COSMIC cohorts are contributing. 6. Dementias Platform Australia (DPAU). a. The website was launched late in the year; b. Twenty-one COSMIC studies have agreed to upload data to DPAU (another 7 are unable to do so but have agreed to be listed on the site); c. Descriptive summaries have been reviewed and approved for 29 COSMIC studies.

Staff Professor Perminder Sachdev Professor Henry Brodaty Dr Darren Lipnicki Dr Jiyang Jiang Dr Suraj Samtani Dr John Crawford

Dr Ben Lam Dr Nicole Kochan Dr Louise Mewton Nicholas Hoy Jessica Lo Rachel Visontay Ashley Stevens Saly Mahalingam

Students Dr Matthew Lennon Annabel Matison

Dr Darren Lipnicki Study Coordinator

5. International collaborations with: a. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. We facilitated the provision of data from 16 COSMIC cohorts for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study; b. The Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative, who are providing funding and resources to COSMIC cohorts from Malaysia, Singapore, and The Philippines for the collection of new behavioural and genetic data through the use of digital tools and blood assays;

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Appendix G: Publications

51min
pages 105-114

Appendix E: Research Grants & Funding

10min
pages 99-103

Appendix C: Postgraduate Students

7min
pages 95-97

Appendix D: Awards & Promotions

2min
page 98

Completed Projects

26min
pages 83-90

Current Projects

1hr
pages 63-82

CHeBA Collaborators

8min
pages 58-62

Public Forums

2min
page 56

WithYou

1min
page 52

CHeBA in the Media

5min
pages 53-54

KPMG Sydney Commits to Ongoing Support for The Dementia Momentum

2min
page 47

Change Makers – Next Gen Philanthropy

8min
pages 48-50

The Dementia Momentum - Spokesman’s Report

2min
page 46

Sydney Centenarian Study

2min
page 41

PhD Completions

5min
pages 42-43

Sydney Memory and Ageing Study

7min
pages 38-40

Maintain Your Brain

1min
page 36

Older Australian Twins Study

2min
page 37

SHARED

2min
page 32

STROKOG

6min
pages 33-35

COSMIC

2min
page 31

COGNISANCE

6min
pages 28-30

Risk Factors

2min
pages 26-27

Neuropsychiatry

2min
page 22

Genomics & Epigenomics

2min
pages 18-19

Proteomics

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page 25

Neuroimaging

3min
pages 20-21

Neuropsychology

3min
pages 23-24

Epidemiology

1min
page 17

Effect of COVID-19 Greatest on People Living with Dementia

1min
page 9

Researching Aged Care, Policy and Education

1min
pages 12-13

About the Centre

2min
pages 6-7

CHeBA Launches Dementias Platform Australia to Make Study of Ageing ‘Truly Global’

2min
page 11

Brain Ageing Research Laboratory

5min
pages 14-16

Co-Directors' Report

3min
pages 4-5

CHeBA Funding Success to Transform ‘Preventable Dementia

1min
page 8

Can Fluid-Filled Spaces in the Brain Predict Dementia?

1min
page 10
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