Dr. Ganesh Babulal is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine, an affiliated investigator of the Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and a faculty scholar with the Washington University Institute for Public Health. His research program investigates how cognitive, emotive and physical age-related changes affect instrumental activities of daily living among older adults with chronic neurological diseases, specifically dementia. Dr. Babulal’s current work examines changes in driving performance and behavior among older adults with and without pre-clinical Alzheimer’s. Dr. Babulal also has strong interests in how the prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia in low and middle-income countries are influenced by social determinants of health, including multidimensional poverty, literacy/numeracy, stigma, armed conflict and disability.