Ms Emily Ong TT, Dementia Alliance International

Strengths I bring: Passionate, Team player, Detailed-oriented

What I would like the network to achieve: I would like to make sure research funding opportunities are inclusive, diverse, and equitable.

A lived experience expert of cognitive impairment, patient advocate and consumer advocate with special interest in environment and neurocognitive disorders, rehabilitation, disability rights and employment. A commissioned author of the WHO-BMJ Series Lived Experience as Expertise and co-founder of several initiatives.

Dementia Alliance International (DAI) is is a global organisation of, by and for individuals diagnosed with dementia providing a unified voice of strength, advocacy, and support in the fight for individual autonomy for people with dementia.

DAI was established in January 2014 and a registered non-profit organisation whose membership is exclusively for people with a medically confirmed diagnosis of any type of a dementia from all around the world. https://dementiaallianceinternational.org/get-involved/special-interest-groups/ed-sig