The Healthy Brain Initiative: A National Public Health Road Map to Maintaining Cognitive Health

This booklet examines the current state of knowledge regarding the promotion and protection of cognitive health, identified important knowledge gaps, and defined the unique role and contributions of public health. This focuses on vascular risk factors and physical activity because of their association with cognitive outcomes, adopted a strategic framework, and embarked on an intensive process to generate the actions offered.

This contains a proposed set of 44 actions that are firmly grounded in science, emphasize primary prevention, assume a community and population approach, and are committed to eliminating disparities in personal health and health care for racial or ethnic groups.