Ms Adelina  Comas-Herrera

Ms Adelina Comas-Herrera

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow

Care Policy and Evaluation Centre (CPEC)

Telephone
+44 (0)20 7955 7306
Room No
FAW 5.01B
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Languages
English, Spanish
Key Expertise
Economics of Social Care

About me

Adelina Comas-Herrera is co-lead of the Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries (STRiDE) project. Funded by the Research Councils UK Global Challenges Research Fund, STRiDE is a multi-national project covering Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, and South Africa. The project aims to build capacity to generate research that supports the development of policy responses to dementia, with related projects also under way in Hong Kong and New Zealand. She is the curator of LTCcovid.org, an initiative linked to International Long-Term Care Policy Network that shares evidence and resources to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 amongst those who use and provide long-term care.

Her main research interests are economic aspects of care, treatment and support of people with dementia, and long-term care financing, both in the UK and globally. She has extensive experience in developing simulation models of the future resources required to address long-term care needs and needs arising from dementia.

She has a background in Economics (BA and MSc, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and is currently Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

She has been a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank’s ageing and long-term care programme and for the World Health Organisation’s Department of Ageing and Life Course, preparing a country self-assessment tool for long-term care.  She was a co-author of the 2016 and 2019 editions of the World Alzheimer Report.

Expertise Details

Dementia; Ageing; Costs of Unpaid Care; Economics of Dementia; Economics of Social Care; Global Health; Long-Term Care Financing; Long-Term Care Policy; Long-Term Care Projections