Dr David Loughrey is an Assistant Professor in Community Health in the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health. He earned his PhD in the TCD School of Medicine, where he was funded by the Irish Research Council employment-based postgraduate research scholarship in partnership with Chime and by the Dr Ciaran Barry Research Scholarship awarded by the Central Remedial Clinic. He is also a senior Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute based in Trinity College Dublin and University of California San Francisco and the Atlantic Institute based in the Rhodes Trust, University of Oxford. Dr Loughrey is interested understanding how social factors and disabilities such as sensory impairment may impact brain health and increase the risk of dementia.