Monday
March 2nd

Opening Day

Celebrate 10 years of the Global Brain Health Institute’s growing impact around the world and 5 years of Creative Brain Week’s emerging network.

Hear how “Thinking. Better. Together.” is improving brain health and reducing the impact of conditions like Alzheimer’s disease as ideas born in Dublin have impact on culture, commerce and care, all around the world.

The speaking events will be followed at 6pm by the opening of the exhibition.

All events are free to attend but capacity is limited so please book early to secure your place.

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3.30pm - 5.30pm

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Creative Brain Week - Recap and Look Ahead

Celebrate 10 years of Global Brain Health Institute’s growing impact around the world, 5 years of Creative Brain Week’s emerging network.

Presenters include:

Contributors

Dominic Campbell is leading the Creative Brain Week initiative. As Bealtaine Festival Director he steered its celebration of creativity and aging’s development over eight years. Formerly an Artistic Director of Ireland’s national celebration he transformed St Patrick’s Festival’s three shows into ninety growing production, managerial teams, financial support, engagement and impact.

Dominic went on to design and produce national celebrations marking the expansion of European Union in 2004 and Centenary celebrations for James Joyce. For “The Day Of Welcomes” delivering 12 simultaneous festivals pairing EU expansion countries with Irish towns and cities engaging 2,500 artists from 32 countries.

He mentored “celebration of ageing” festivals in Wales (Gwanwynn), Scotland (Luminate), and developed projects with partners in Australia and The Netherlands. In 2012 he established the first global conference on Creativity In Older Age opened by Irish President Michael D Higgins, replicating it in San Francisco (2018) and Kentucky (2019).

Recognized as a key cultural influencer in Ireland by The Irish Times and by First Avenue as a Key Influencer in Aging in the US, in 2016 he became an inaugural Atlantic Fellow for Equity and Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute a project between Trinity College Dublin and University of California San Francisco an ambitious worldwide program seeking social and public health solutions to reduce the scale and adverse impact of dementia. Currently developing an arts programme for the Irish Hospice Foundation as response to the pandemic and the Ageing Voices programme with Sing Ireland.

Website:

www.creativeaginginternational.com

www.gbhi.org/profiles/dominic-campbell

www.ArtsAndBrain.com

Social:

Bluesky: @creativebrainweek.bsky.social

Siobhan is the newly appointed Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland. Formerly Director of Marketing & Business Development at Age NI, she led major initiatives in dementia, brain health, loneliness, healthy ageing, and support for older workers. She is European Vice-President of the International Federation on Ageing, a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, and former member of Innovate UK Healthy Ageing Advisory group. Siobhan has extensive leadership experience in international marketing, business development, and strategic growth across public, private, and voluntary sectors.

Website:

https://copni.org/about/who-is-the-commissioner

Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/siobhan-casey-b2b45513

 

Adolfo García, Ph.D., specializes in the neuroscience of language. He serves as Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Center (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina), Senior Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute (University of California, San Francisco), and Associate Researcher at Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He is also co-founder of Include, a global network for crosslinguistic research on brain health; and creator of TELL, a speech testing app. He has obtained funds from multiple international agencies, including a USD 8.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health on linguistic markers of dementia. He has authored more than 200 publications and offered 250 presentations. His science communication milestones include a TEDx talk with a live audience of 12,000 persons, the TV show “Of brains and words,” the video series “Language, brain, and body,” the radio column “Mind and communication,” and the documentary “Impulso sonoro” (Canal Encuentro). His contributions have been recognized by the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, the Argentine Association of Behavioral Science, the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires, the Alzheimer’s Association, and Harvard’s Ig Nobel awards. He also received the Early Career Award, from the Society for the Neurobiology of Language; and the UpLink Top Innovator Award, from the World Economic Forum.

Websites:

https://adolfogarcia.com.ar

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/adolfo-garcia

https://include-network.com/

Social Media:

https://twitter.com/adolfomgarcia

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adolfomgarcia/

https://www.instagram.com/adolfmgarcia/

https://www.facebook.com/adolfo.garcia.338658

https://www.youtube.com/@adolfogarcia5663/videos

Corrina Grimes is a health leader with over 25 years of experience across the Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland and NHS, serving in roles as a clinician, commissioner, and policymaker, including as National Deputy Director in NHS England. Since 2017, she has been a Senior Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI).

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Corrina developed the Advance Care Planning Policy — Now and for the Future for the Department of Health, promoting compassionate, person-centred decision-making in Northern Ireland’s health and social care policy. .

In 2024, Corrina founded MemoryTell, a MedTech start-up inspired by the vision of the Atlantic Fellows and GBHI to translate neuroscience research into real-world impact. Working in collaboration with Fellow Senior Atlantic Fellow and cognitive neuroscientist Adolfo García and engineer Fernando Johann, MemoryTell harnesses AI-driven, speech-based technology to enhance the speed, accuracy, and dignity of dementia diagnosis in front-line clinical services. The platform also shows promise as a population brain health tool, providing a measurable and trackable “brain health score” to support prevention and early intervention across the life course.

Catalysed by the Atlantic Fellows network, MemoryTell embodies the enduring legacy of Chuck Feeney and Atlantic Philanthropies — transforming groundbreaking research into practical, compassionate solutions that bridge science, care, and policy. The company’s mission reflects Corrina’s lifelong commitment to ensuring that innovation in brain health benefits patients, caregivers, and health systems alike.

Corrina recently completed a postgraduate qualification in Digital Health Innovation, grounded in the Stanford Biodesign framework. This further strengthens her expertise in applying needs-led design and digital technologies to transform healthcare systems and scale innovations for population impact.

Alongside her professional expertise, Corrina’s perspective is profoundly shaped by her experience as a carer for a family member living with dementia, reinforcing her commitment to dignity, empathy, and equity in dementia care.

With a unique combination of health system leadership, digital innovation, personal insight, and international collaboration, Corrina is working to ensure Northern Ireland becomes a global exemplar for population brain health, prevention, and innovation — continuing the Atlantic legacy of giving while living and advancing fairer, healthier societies for all.

Website:

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/corrina-grimes

Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/corrina-grimes-a5801a86/

https://twitter.com/Cgrimes3

It was 1977, Ennis and Doolin were alive with new music. He was in a room on the top floor of a house in Abbey Street creating a new sound with Maura O Connell. They were Tumbleweed. Stocktons Wing were creating a movement down the road on O’Connell Street. It was exciting. Maura went to Nashville, he jumped on The Wing Wave ……. It has been a rollercoaster.

As an Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College he has been learning about dementia and ways he can contribute as an artist to promote equity and care for brain health.

Websites:  

https://www.mikehanrahan.com

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/mike-hanrahan

Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-hanrahan-66780946/

https://x.com/mikehanrahan46

https://www.instagram.com/mikehanrahanmusic/

Agustín Ibáñez is a global leader in brain health, serving as Director of Global Research Networks at the Global Brain Health Institute (Trinity College Dublin) and Scientific Director of the Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez). His research bridges computational neuroscience, aging clocks, exposome science, whole-body health, and artificial intelligence to advance understanding of brain health across diverse populations. Author of over 500 publications and recipient of major international grants (NIH, NIA, Wellcome Trust, Alzheimer’s Association), he leads multicenter initiatives such as ReDLat and CliCBrain, promoting equitable, transdisciplinary approaches to precision brain health worldwide.

Websites:

https://dragustinibanez.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6758-5101

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/agustin-ibanez

Social:

https://twitter.com/AgustinMIbanez

https://www.instagram.com/dr.agustinibanez/

https://www.facebook.com/agustin.ibanez.351756

https://www.linkedin.com/in/agustin-ibanez-b727172b/

Stefania is the Technical Officer of Long-term Care at the WHO European Office and an Atlantic Fellow with the Global Brain Health Institute, based in Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses on discrimination and inequity in access to health and long-term care, with particular attention to intersecting inequalities and vulnerable population groups. Her work aims to inform policy on the challenges and opportunities posed by demographic ageing and associated prevalence of dementia, to health and social care systems in Europe and beyond. She has extensive experience in designing, implementing and disseminating results for research projects in the fields of health economics and policy as well as public health.

Websites:

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/stefania-ilinca

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefania-Ilinca

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefania-ilinca-56b79336/

Nicholas Johnson is Associate Professor of Drama and GBHI faculty member at Trinity College Dublin, where he directs the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies and convenes the interdisciplinary Creative Arts Practice research theme. His books include Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett (Brill, 2021), Influencing Beckett / Beckett Influencing (L’Harmattan, 2020), Experimental Beckett (Cambridge UP, 2020) and Bertolt Brecht’s David Fragments (1919–1921): An Interdisciplinary Study (Bloomsbury, 2020). He co-edited the “Performance Issue” (23.1, 2014) and the “Pedagogy Issue” (29.1, 2020) of the Journal of Beckett Studies (Edinburgh UP). Directing credits include Virtual Play (2017–19) and world premieres of The David Fragments (2017), Enemy of the Stars (2015), and No’s Knife (Lincoln Center, 2015). He works as dramaturg with Pan Pan, OT Platform, and Dead Centre and facilitates theatre workshops internationally. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 2021.

Websites:

https://tcd.academia.edu/NicholasJohnson

Social Media:

https://twitter.com/BeckettTheatre

Atholl Valdon Kleinhans is a Public Health PhD candidate and interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of sociology, medical education, and health equity. His doctoral research explores the lived experiences of LGBTIQ+ health profession students in South Africa, contributing to growing efforts to create more inclusive, socially responsive, and contextually relevant health sciences education. His work is grounded in qualitative inquiry and informed by critical perspectives on gender, power, and institutional culture.

Atholl has more than ten years of experience in higher education as both a researcher and educator. His academic interests include diversity, equity and inclusion in health professions education, curriculum transformation, and the integration of social science perspectives into medical and health sciences training. He is particularly committed to strengthening the links between public health, social justice, and health workforce development in the Global South. Atholl is also passionate about health equity for people living with Down Syndrome and is involved in multiple community project advocating for the rights of people with DS. Currently they are conducting a national study in South Africa assessing the needs of caregivers of persons with DS. They are also launching another study called

 Framework for Understanding Neurocognitive Disorders via Indigenous Systems in South Africa (FUNDISA), which aims to develop a culturally appropriate framework and language for neurocognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and Down syndrome (DS) in South Africa at the interface of Indigenous and Biomedical Knowledge Systems.

He has presented his work at international academic forums, where he contributes to global conversations on inclusive education and the transformation of health professions training, health equity and strengthening public health systems.

Websites:

https://www.atlanticfellows.org/bio/atholl-kleinhans

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Atholl-Kleinhans-3

https://purerims.smu.ac.za/en/persons/atholl-valdon-kleinhans/

Social Media:

www.linkedin.com/in/atholl-kleinhans-2017122a

https://www.facebook.com/athollk

Professor Brian Lawlor (MD, FRCPI, FRCPsych, FTCD (Hon), DABPN) is Conolly Norman Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, and a Founding Director of the Global Brain Health Institute at Trinity College. He is a geriatric psychiatrist with an interest in dementia, late-life depression, loneliness and brain health. Brian has worked for over 30 years on developing services and delivering care to people with dementia. His research interests range from early detection and prevention to evaluating new treatments for dementia.

Websites:

www.gbhi.org

https://www.understandtogether.ie

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/brian-lawlor

Social Media:

https://x.com/ProfLawlor

Iracema specializes in pragmatic interventions for cognitive and neuropsychiatric issues in neurodegenerative disorders, particularly Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. She leads the HRB-CTN Dementia Trials Ireland and was Chief Investigator for the EU-funded SENSE-Cog programme, exploring the links between hearing, vision, and cognition in older adults. She now heads the HRB-funded EMERALD Lewy research program, focused on advancing the diagnosis and care of Lewy body disease in Ireland. At St James’s Hospital, she established the ‘Mind and Memory’ clinic, supporting individuals with cognitive and behavioral issues related to Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia.

Iracema is also an accomplished open water swimmer, with swims including the 44km Manhattan Island Marathon.

Websites:

Kim-Huong applies economic theories and methods to assess the social and economic values of healthcare and social services. She designs policies and programmes to optimise the value of health and social care and to improve equitable access and use for disadvantaged groups.

Her interests encompass brain health in older adults and those with brain injuries, as well as evaluation methods in Creative Health for resource allocation. She works closely with advocates, health and social service consumers, policy analysts, and researchers from diverse backgrounds, including medical professionals, artists, industry organizations, and peak bodies.

Kim-Huong is an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin and University of California, San Francisco. She holds a PhD in Applied Econometrics in Health from the University of Queensland (Australia).

Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) and leads the Health Economics and Health Services Research portfolio at the Queensland Brain Injury Collective.

Before her academic career in Australia, she was a development analyst for international agencies providing foreign development aid to Vietnam.

Websites:

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/kim-huong-nguyen

https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/20210

Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-huong-nguyen-64850663

Ganzamungu Zihindula is a Global Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity, and a PEPFAR Fellow Alumnae. He is currently working as a public health consultant for the design, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion interventions to help health care workers identify, prevent, and promote health.

His previous research focused on access to care, human resource for health, prevention strategies for NCDs (Cancer, Diabetes, Hypertension & Mental health), forced migration health and social determinants of health. He is passionate about health inclusion, health equity and social justice for the socially excluded people, specifically the refugees.

Dr Zihindula’s work is influenced by his lived experiences of forced displacement leading to the founding of the Urban Refugees and Asylum Seekers Assistance (URASA) project, the Southern Africa Refugee Organisations Forum (SAROF) of which he is a regional chair, the Action de Transformation Social a Impact Durable (ATRASID) as well as the Healthy Rural Society Advocacy project (HRSA).

He has participated in projects providing technical support and implementation of appropriate health programs in the public health sector for the past 15 years. Dr Zihindula has experiences working with PATH, USAID, UNFPA, WELCOME TRUST, I-TECH, MRC-UK, and PEPFAR regulations and administrative procedures for the implementation of donor-funded projects. He has published more than 45 peer reviewed articles including book chapters, and has presented at more than 51national and international conferences.

Websites: 

https://tekano.org.za/tekano-fellow/ganzamungu-zihindula/

Social Media: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ganzamungu-zihindula-6719bba0/

https://www.facebook.com/tzihindula

https://x.com/ZGanzamungu

Dela Wilson, JD, MPA, is a strategic facilitator and creative technologist who develops leaders and cross-functional teams at the intersections of culture, governance, and imagination.

Based in Atlanta, GA, she is the founder of Axle Impact Studio (“aksel”), a global design and strategy consultancy that partners with governments, philanthropies, and cultural institutions across the U.S., Africa, and the Caribbean to design reparative systems. She is also the writer and director of The Hope Gap XR, a multi-modal immersive storytelling ecosystem that expands our belief in possibility.  With degrees earned from  Spelman College, Georgetown Law, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Dela’s practice is equal parts rigor, memory and play—using story, immersive experience, and facilitation to help people lead with more courage, clarity, creativity and care.

She is a Global Fellow of the Atlantic Institute, Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, and formerly held fellowships with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance at Innovation at Harvard, the Center for Law and Technology Policy at Georgetown Law and USC Marshall School of Business as a Social Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

Websites:

https://www.atlanticfellows.org/bio/deloris–dela–wilson

https://www.axleimpactstudio.com/

Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/deloriswilson/

5.30pm - 6.00pm

Pratchett Prize

Presentation of The Pratchett Prize

First awarded at Creative Brain Week 2024 the annual Prachett Prize is inspired by the life and work of author Terry Pratchett and Trinity’s Pratchett Project an enduring legacy and memorial archive to his work. The award acknowledges the contribution of a scientist, artist, activist, or person living with dementia who, collaboratively or individually, works to reduce its impact. 

In the spirit of Terry Pratchett’s literary and personal work, the “adjudicating wizards” awarding the Prize seek humour and wit in art and science, kindness, creativity and curiosity, playfulness, attention and dedication, in equal measure.  The winner of this year’s award will be announced by James Hadley.

The prize is awarded each year to an individual or group that has had a material effect on challenging the stigma associated with Alzheimer’s disease, and/or has had a material effect over the lives of people living with the disease.

Former Winners:

2025 presentation to Fiona Flavin and Sinead Gallivan of Singing for the Brain.

 2024 presentation to Bryan Murray (actor) and Deirdre Kinahan (playwright) for the An Old Song, Half Forgotten project.

Contributors

James works in Literary Translation Studies. His work focuses on bringing together emerging technologies with the creativity associated with rendering texts in different languages. He makes use of a Digital Humanities methodologies both to study existing translations and to explore new ways that translations can be produced. James also coordinates the Pratchett Project, bringing together research that is in some way related to the life and/or work of Terry Pratchett, irrespective of its disciplinary background.

Websites:

https://www.tcd.ie/literary-translation/people/jhadley.php

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Hadley-3

Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslhadley/

Terry Pratchett & Trinity College Dublin

Pratchett did not go to university. He left school early so as to start working as a journalist, having been offered the job. After working for some time as a journalist, he started writing fiction in his spare time. He took his first book to Trinity graduate, Colin Smythe, who owned a small publishing House (Colin Smythe Limited). Smythe published Pratchett’s first few books himself, and then became Pratchett’s literary agent when larger publishers (Gollancz and later Penguin Random House) took over publishing his work.

Smythe began donating copies of all Pratchett’s books in all published languages to Trinity, Liverpool and Senate House Library (University of London). This collection continues to grow today, being represented by all 41 of Pratchett’s Discworld novels, several other novels, children’s books and other books, and all their translations into at least 40 languages. At last count (just before the pandemic), this collection was over 2000 items strong.

Pratchett was awarded an honorary doctorate by Trinity in 2008 for his services to Literature.

He created a bursary to facilitate a student exchange between Dublin and Adelaide each year

In 2010, Pratchett was made an Adjunct Lecturer in Creative Writing at Trinity. You can view his inaugural speech (the importance of being amazed by absolutely everything), here.

He came to Trinity regularly.

Pratchett Project

The Project was set up in 2018, when the library approached Trinity about the collection and asked whether there would be any interest in it for literary translation students. Since then, each culture night The Pratchett Project brought together anyone from any discipline or inter-discipline whose work has intersected in some way with the life and/or work of Terry Pratchett. The Pratchett Project has welcomed speakers from topic areas including: literary studies, digital humanities, translation studies, library studies, theatre studies, and neuroscience. Many of the talks that have been given in the past are available on YouTube.

In the summer of 2020 (during the pandemic), Trinity College Dublin held an international conference online, which took the same principle. Anybody from any discipline or inter-discipline was welcome, provided their work was related to Pratchett’s life and/or work in some way.

Pratchett became one of the most vocal advocates for supporting research into Alzheimer’s Disease after being diagnosed in 2007. He continued this advocacy until his death in 2015. The Pratchett Project has taken up his mantel in this respect.

He was also a passionate advocate for the natural environment and assisted death.

Since 2021, the Project has been working to attract funding to support its work and is  hoping to digitise the whole collection and place it into a non-consumable database, so that researchers would be able to interrogate it without compromising copyright law. Pratchett was famously fascinated by technology.

The Project has  successfully attracted funding to cover a PhD candidate working at the forefront of Alzheimer’s disease research and have also been applying for external funding to support a whole inter-disciplinary team of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who would aim to dispel the stigma associated with Alzheimer’s Disease.

At this stage, the Project is an umbrella for people with an interest in Pratchett’s life and work to interact irrespective of disciplinary boundaries.

In the future, the Project intends to take this passive approach and make it active, by driving forward a new conception of doctoral and postdoctoral training which builds on the skill sets that people in diverse disciplines have, but which do not necessarily travel easily across disciplinary boundaries. This concept has been tested recently with the PhD candidate in neuroscience, who has also needed to learn new skills associated with literary interpretation and communication with a general audience.

The Pratchett Prize
Inspired by the life and work of author Terry Pratchett, this award, now in its fourth year year, acknowledges the contribution of a scientist, artist, activist, or person living with dementia who, collaboratively or individually, has had a material effect on challenging the stigma associated with Alzheimer’s Disease, and/or the impact on the lives of people living with the disease.

2024 Pratchett Prize was awarded to “An Old Song Half Forgotten” project, produced by Sofft Productions, a play by Deirdre Kinahan about Bryan Murray, an actor living with dementia..

2025 Pratchett prize was awarded to Fiona Flavin and Sinead Gallivan of Singing for the Brain.

While a bust of Terry Pratchett is awarded on the night as part of the ceremony, the main prize is symbolic. The winner has done something for the greater good that deserves recognition.

6.00pm - 7.00pm

Colorful human brain with music notes and instruments

Creative Brain Week Exhibition Opening

A first look at the exhibition of creative work accompanying the fifth Creative Brain Week.  

This year’s exhibition will feature images from the ground breaking Lancet article Visualising relationships between the arts and health published in Autumn 2025 the “first curated photography essay in The Lancet in its 202-year history, signalling the importance of this feature and photography to engage, illuminate, and inform readers about the diverse relationships between arts and health” Miriam Sabin, North American Senior Executive Editor, The Lancet.

In addition, we will display case studies celebrating the impact of achievements  by Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health alumni over the first 10 years of GBHI.

We will discuss Meon (an Irish word meaning mind, spirit, attitude, or disposition) – an exhibition that brings together mixed media artworks and performance-based pieces with Two Cent Collective who have worked with the young people attending the Linn Dara schools on the Cherry Orchard Hospital Campus, Dublin.

Finally, this year’s programme includes Koko Suzanne a short film by Zach Bandler and Emmuel Epenge which explores the impact of dementia on a family in Kinshasa.

For more information on the exhibition, please see the Creative Programme page.

Contributors

As a director and screenwriter, Zach Bandler’s films are geared toward international stories about health equity. He served as a 2022 Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health with the Global Brain Health Institute in Dublin, Ireland, where his work continues to intersect with advocacy for those with cognitive and psychological conditions. His first collaboration to emerge from this endeavor, KOKO SUZANNE (2025), is a short film made in the Democratic Republic of Congo alongside Congolese cast and crew, and serves as the main component in an impact initiative lead by Congolese physicians in order to help individuals and families navigating dementia. The film was recently acquired by CANAL+ for distribution across Africa and Europe on television and streaming.

Zach’s feature film screenplay LAND OF THE YOUNG was chosen by Francis Ford Coppola as the winner of the 2023 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition and was a Semifinalist for the 2024 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. With a grant from the Alzheimer’s Association, Zach co- facilitated a workshop with Irish poet Eithne Hand in Sligo, Ireland, supporting people living with dementia and their caregivers in the creation of material is being adapted into poetry featured onscreen in LAND OF THE YOUNG. His feature screenplay ALTERED was a Finalist in the 2023 ScreenCraft Feature Competition, and is currently in early pre-production to film in the fall of 2026.

His film THE LIGHTKEEPER (2018) was named the final recipient of the CINE Golden Eagle Award for Narrative Short Film, an award recognizing rising filmmakers since 1962 which has honored the early careers of Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Ron Howard and others. His medical comedy short TORN (2019) premiered online with Directors Notes, and his mid-length drama film THE STAIRS (2016) won the Audience Award at the Ashland Independent Film Festival.

Zach is currently the inaugural Miller Artist in Residence at the University of California, San Francisco’s Memory and Aging Center, where he is researching the neurocinematics of empathy and their application in more impactful narrative filmmaking.

Websites:

https://www.zachbandler.com

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/zach-bandler

Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachbandler/

https://www.instagram.com/zachbandler/

 

Connecting youth advocates and changemakers, Will works to improve the way our world perceives and responds to dementia—specialising in digital marketing, storytelling and entrepreneurship.

Two Cent Collective is made up of Atlantic Fellows anGie seah, Will Dean, Rohith Khanna Deivasigamani, and Colin Regan.

Websites:

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/will-dean

Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/fulltimedreamchaser/

https://www.instagram.com/dolladean

https://instagram.com/2cent_collective

Rohith is a psychiatrist at Schizophrenia Research Foundation (India), focusing on geriatric mental health in urban and rural areas. In rural areas, we deliver community-based dementia care utilising trained health workers to ensure early diagnosis and care.

Two Cent Collective is made up of Atlantic Fellows anGie seah, Will Dean, Rohith Khanna Deivasigamani, and Colin Regan.

Websites:

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/rohith-khanna-deivasigamani

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohith-khanna-deivasigamani-638609157/

Social Media:

https://instagram.com/2cent_collective

Previously a journalist/editor, Colin works as Community & Health manager with the Gaelic Athletic Association (Ireland’s largest sporting and community organization) where his role encompasses all aspects of health promotion and community development.

Two Cent Collective is made up of Atlantic Fellows anGie seah, Will Dean, Rohith Khanna Deivasigamani, and Colin Regan.

Websites:

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/colin-regan

Social Media:

https://instagram.com/2cent_collective

anGie is a multi-disciplinary artist from Singapore with over two decades of socially engaged practice, integrating visual arts, sound, and performance to explore well-being, ageing, and emotional labour through transformative encounters shaped by lived experiences.

Two Cent Collective is made up of Atlantic Fellows anGie seah, Will Dean, Rohith Khanna Deivasigamani, and Colin Regan.

Websites:

https://angieseah.com

https://www.gbhi.org/profiles/angie-seah

Social Media:

https://instagram.com/angie_seah

https://instagram.com/2cent_collective