Mental Health and Brain Health

Making ‘Brain Health’ An Economic Investment

6 min read
DAC founder George Vradenburg (right) and McKinsey’s Kana Enomoto (centre).

Some 80 million Africans are projected to have dementia by 2050 – a fourfold increase from 2015 – and governments need to invest in brain health as an “economic imperative”

Technology and Brain Health

Strengthening Africa’s brain health and economic resilience

13 min read
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