Adelina Comas-Herrera is the director of the Global Observatory of Long-Term Care (GOLTC), a platform to support cross-national learning on how to improve and strengthen long-term care systems, building on the previous LTCcovid.org website, which brought together international experts on long-term care, sharing data and reports analysing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term care systems.

She is currently working on the STRiDE England project, which seeks to understand inequalities in dementia care at individual, local and national level, the Social Care Covid-19 Recovery and Resilience project, looking to learn lessons for the English social care system from emerging evidence and international experiences and is part of the Adult Social Care Research Unit and the Dementia and Neurodegeneration Policy Research Unit (Exeter). She is also part of a team providing technical support to the Irish Commission for Care for Older People.

Her research focuses on economic and policy aspects of the care, treatment and support of people with dementia, and long-term care financing. She was co-lead of the Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries (STRiDE) project, a multi-national research project funded by the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund involving Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, and South Africa. She previously worked on the “Modelling Dementia” (MODEM) research project which aimed to estimate the impact, in terms of costs and quality of life, of making evidence-based interventions for dementia more widely available in England.

She was co-author of the World Alzheimer Report in 2016, 2019 and 2924. She is a member of the World Health Organisation’s Global Network of Long-Term Care and was a consultant for World Health Organisation and the Inter-American Development Bank.