Dementias Platform Australia (DPAU)
Powering cohort research to stop dementia before it starts.
Dementia is one of the biggest global public health challenges in history.
Without a medical breakthrough, it is likely that Australia's population with dementia will surpass one million people by the middle of the century. Change for future generations depends largely on research.
DPAU is reshaping dementia research by hosting data from international longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of brain ageing with the mission of transforming the epidemiology of ageing and dementia.
DPAU aims to shape the future of dementia research by:
Providing a secure data exchange platform
Pooling data for scientific breakthroughs
Supporting early career researchers
The Future of Dementia Research
Making data available via DPAU will ensure the generous contribution of time given by research participants will continue to yield new clues to the causes of dementias.
About us
DPAU is led by UNSW Sydney’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) and established in partnership with Monash Secure eResearch Platform (SeRP) and Dementias Platform UK (DPUK).
Our expertise
The objective of DPAU is to support researchers to access cohort data from multiple studies and enable new insights into ageing, ageing-related diseases and dementia risk.
Our Vision
We perform data curation following the well-established DPUK cohort data ontology that simplifies the analysis of multiple datasets and improves data accessibility for researchers.
Funding Support for DPAU
DPAU is currently supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH), with funding partnerships available.