Janet Maccora

RESEARCHER PROFILE

PhD Student

j.maccora@neura.edu.au

Epidemiology & Population Health Resilience Dementia

Janet has a background in epidemiology with an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Now in the second year of her PhD candidacy, her broad research interest is factors for maintaining cognitive health in later life, with a specific focus on education as a protective factor. Her PhD topic also investigates the phenomenon of “SuperAgers” – people in their 60s who perform as well as, or better than, people 40 years younger than them on cognitive tests. Janet is using data from the Personality and Total Health (PATH) cohort that has been running in the ACT and Queanbeyan for 18 years.

Projects Janet Maccora is currently involved with

CURRENT PROJECTS

NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Cognitive Health


JANET MACCORA, PROFESSOR KAARIN ANSTEY, LIDAN ZHENG, NICOLE EE, DR RUTH PETERS

The Centre of Research Excellence in Cognitive Health focuses on the integrally linked areas of optimising cognitive health and the prevention of cognitive decline.

The centre aims to:

  • Build the evidence base in cognitive health promotion and prevention of cognitive decline, focussing on evaluating putative new risks and under researched areas
  • Develop methods of transferring, translating and implementing established findings, through the development and evaluation of interventions
  • Model population level impacts of cognitive impairment and risk modification to quantify potential economic benefits of risk reduction and to inform policy.

The CRE Cognitive Health led by Professor Kaarin Anstey is a collaboration between Chief and Associate Investigators from the Australian National University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, Australian Catholic University, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute and University of Exeter.

For more information about the CRE Cognitive Health, please visit the centre website, including more information on research themes, news and events, and recent publications.

The CRE Cognitive Health is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council.

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NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Cognitive Health

ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EDUCATION AND COGNITION

RESEARCH TEAM

LIDAN ZHENG PhD Student : (02) 9399 1041
: l.zheng@neura.edu.au

JIA YING LOW Research Assistant : (02) 9399 1059
: j.low@neura.edu.au

BROOKE BRADY Postdoctoral Fellow : (02) 9399 1060
: b.brady@neura.edu.au

CLAIRE MOGENSEN Data Manager : 9399 1029
: c.morgensen@neura.edu.au

MORGAN LAIRD Research Assistant : 9399 1040
: m.laird@neura.edu.au

DR SCHERAZAD KOOTAR PhD Student : 9399 1043
: s.kootar@neura.edu.au

KIRSTY ZMISA Executive Assistant : 9399 1019
: k.zmisa@neura.edu.au

NICOLE EE Research Assistant : 9399 1085
: n.ee@neura.edu.au

DR RANMALEE ERAMUDUGOLLA Research Manager : r.eramudugolla@neura.edu.au

SUPERVISORS

PROFESSOR KAARIN ANSTEY Senior Principal Research Scientist

DR MOYRA MORTBY Research Fellow

DR KIM KIELY Research Fellow

DR RUTH PETERS Senior Research Scientist Conjoint Senior Lecturer, UNSW

Further information about Janet Maccora

RELATED INFORMATION

Janet is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Scholarship and a Supplementary PhD Scholarship Award from the Centre of Excellence for Population Ageing Research (CEPAR).