Lunch Hour Lecture: Brain Imaging for Global Health
Lunch Hour Lecture: Brain Imaging for Global Health
19 Mar 2019, 13:00 – 14:00
About the lecture: For infants living in resource-poor settings, exposure to malnutrition, poor sanitation and infectious diseases can have a very damaging effect not just on their health but on their brain development. Current estimates suggest that 1 in 3 of these infants are failing to reach their developmental potential; these infants are surviving but they are not necessarily thriving. The Brain Imaging for Global Health (BRIGHT) project is using a novel optical brain imaging technique to chart brain development of African infants from birth to their second birthday to inform interventions to protect the brains of some of the world’s poorest children.
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Clare Elwell
Clare Elwell, Professor of Medical Physics at UCL, develops novel optical systems to image the human brain and her research projects include studies of autism, acute brain injury, migraine and malaria. She currently leads the BRIGHT (Brain Imaging for Global Health) project which delivered the first brain images of infants in Africa. She is President of the Society for Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy, and of the London International Youth Science Forum. She has won awards for her research, teaching and public engagement, and was a 2018 British Science Association Media Fellow at the Financial Times. She is Founder and Trustee of the charity Young Scientists for Africa.
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