Karen Blackmon is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Associate Professor of Population Health at Aga Khan University in Kenya, and Co-Chair of the World Health Organization Dementia Assessment Workgroup. Her research focuses on identifying at-risk and resilient cognitive aging with novel tools and biomarkers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. She is a Principal Investigator on the NIH-funded Brain-START project, which is validating new digital cognitive assessments for dementia detection across Kenya and Pakistan, as well as the Wellcome Leap-funded Brain-Resilience-Kenya study, which employs a mixed-methods approach to identify biopsychosocial factors underlying cognitive resiliency in Kenyan adults. Her clinical efforts aim to streamline early detection, pre-diagnostic care pathways, and brain health lifestyle change for patients with cognitive decline.