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Public brain health: a framework for action to promote and safeguard brain health

  • Timothy Daly1,2,3
  • Dorothee Horstkötter4
  • Harris Anthony Eyre5,6,7,8,9
  • Emily Murphy10,11
  • Seth Alan Gale12,13
  • Lisa Cosgrove14
  • Davide Bruno15,16
  • Eoin Cotter17
  • Andrea Slachevsky18,19,20,21
  • James Rupert Fletcher22
  • Lindsay Wallace23
  • Abel Wajnerman-Paz24
14 more authors
  • Jennifer Jaie Manly25,26,27
  • Jonathan Fuller28,29
  • Stella-Maria Paddick30,31,32
  • Romain Manet33
  • C Elizabeth Shaaban34,35,36
  • Marcello Ienca37
  • Andrea Sylvia Winkler38,39
  • Eider Arenaza-Urquijo40
  • Carol Brayne
  • Agustín Ibáñez17
  • Steffi Riedel-Heller
  • Edo Richard
  • Sebastian Walsh
  • Carole Dufouil
40 affiliations
  1. 1Bordeaux Population Health, University of Bordeaux & INSERM, UMR 1219, Bordeaux, France.
  2. 2ImmunoConcept, University of Bordeaux & CNRS, UMR 5164, Bordeaux, France.
  3. 3Bioethics Program, FLACSO Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  4. 4Department of Health, Ethics and Society, Mental Health and Neuroscience Research Institute (MHeNs), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
  5. 5Global Brain Economy Initiative, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
  6. 6Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
  7. 7Neuro Engineering Initiative, School of Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
  8. 8Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
  9. 9Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association, Barcelona, Spain.
  10. 10University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco, USA.
  11. 11Child Brain Policy Initiative, California Institute on Law, Neuroscience & Education, San Francisco, USA.
  12. 12Mass General Brigham Memory Disorders Division, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
  13. 13Brain Health Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA.
  14. 14Applied Ethics Center, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, USA.
  15. 15School of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
  16. 16Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
  17. 17Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
  18. 18Gerosciences Center for Brain Health and Metabolism (GERO), Santiago, Chile.
  19. 19Memory and Neuropsychiatric Center (CMYN), Hospital del Salvador & Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
  20. 20Neuropsychology and Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory (LANNEC), University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
  21. 21Neurology and Psychiatry Department, Clínica Alemana-Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
  22. 22School of Management, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
  23. 23Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
  24. 24Instituto de Éticas Aplicadas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
  25. 25Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
  26. 26Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
  27. 27Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
  28. 28Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
  29. 29Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Public Health, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
  30. 30Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.
  31. 31Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, Gateshead, UK.
  32. 32Millennium Institute of Care Research (MICARE), Santiago, Chile.
  33. 33Department of Cranial Neurosurgery, Neurological Hospital Pierre Wertheimer, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Bron, France.
  34. 34Department of Health Promotion and Development, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  35. 35Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  36. 36Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  37. 37Institute for History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine and Health, School of Social Sciences & Technology, Munich, Germany.
  38. 38Department of Neurology, Center for Global Health, TUM University Hospital, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
  39. 39Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
  40. 40Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain.
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Abstract

The promotion of brain health has generally been undertaken at the level of individuals, for instance, in the quest for precision treatments for persons with, or at high risk of, neurological disorders. But the growing global burden of neurological conditions and the increasing understanding of the brain's central role in all facets of human life have spurred interest in public health approaches to the brain that emphasise population-level strategies benefitting everyone as part of a "brain health for all" vision of society. This article defines the emerging concept of public brain health as intersectoral action to establish brain health priorities, empower communities, and reduce health inequities, with the ultimate goal of improving brain health at the population level across the lifetime. We propose a framework to promote and safeguard population brain health with the following key elements: codefining priorities with communities, balancing prevention strategies, and reducing global gaps in brain health through ambitious policy-making. Public brain health calls for collective responsibility to maximise brain health equity across the life course.

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@article{daly2026public,
  title = {{Public brain health: a framework for action to promote and safeguard brain health}},
  author = {Timothy Daly and Dorothee Horstkötter and Harris Anthony Eyre and Emily Murphy and Seth Alan Gale and Lisa Cosgrove and Davide Bruno and Eoin Cotter and Andrea Slachevsky and James Rupert Fletcher and Lindsay Wallace and Abel Wajnerman-Paz and Jennifer Jaie Manly and Jonathan Fuller and Stella-Maria Paddick and Romain Manet and C Elizabeth Shaaban and Marcello Ienca and Andrea Sylvia Winkler and Eider Arenaza-Urquijo and Carol Brayne and Agustín Ibáñez and Steffi Riedel-Heller and Edo Richard and Sebastian Walsh and Carole Dufouil},
  journal = {BMC Global and Public Health},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.1186/s44263-026-00340-4},
  url = {https://u-bordeaux.hal.science/hal-05839376v1},
  note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Public brain health: a framework for action to promote and safeguard brain health
AU  - Timothy Daly
AU  - Dorothee Horstkötter
AU  - Harris Anthony Eyre
AU  - Emily Murphy
AU  - Seth Alan Gale
AU  - Lisa Cosgrove
AU  - Davide Bruno
AU  - Eoin Cotter
AU  - Andrea Slachevsky
AU  - James Rupert Fletcher
AU  - Lindsay Wallace
AU  - Abel Wajnerman-Paz
AU  - Jennifer Jaie Manly
AU  - Jonathan Fuller
AU  - Stella-Maria Paddick
AU  - Romain Manet
AU  - C Elizabeth Shaaban
AU  - Marcello Ienca
AU  - Andrea Sylvia Winkler
AU  - Eider Arenaza-Urquijo
AU  - Carol Brayne
AU  - Agustín Ibáñez
AU  - Steffi Riedel-Heller
AU  - Edo Richard
AU  - Sebastian Walsh
AU  - Carole Dufouil
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/20
JO  - BMC Global and Public Health
DO  - 10.1186/s44263-026-00340-4
UR  - https://u-bordeaux.hal.science/hal-05839376v1
AB  - The promotion of brain health has generally been undertaken at the level of individuals, for instance, in the quest for precision treatments for persons with, or at high risk of, neurological disorders. But the growing global burden of neurological conditions and the increasing understanding of the brain's central role in all facets of human life have spurred interest in public health approaches to the brain that emphasise population-level strategies benefitting everyone as part of a "brain health for all" vision of society. This article defines the emerging concept of public brain health as intersectoral action to establish brain health priorities, empower communities, and reduce health inequities, with the ultimate goal of improving brain health at the population level across the lifetime. We propose a framework to promote and safeguard population brain health with the following key elements: codefining priorities with communities, balancing prevention strategies, and reducing global gaps in brain health through ambitious policy-making. Public brain health calls for collective responsibility to maximise brain health equity across the life course.
SN  - 2731-913X
ER  -