www.qimrberghofer.edu.au/clear-the-air-appeal/
Your donation will help deliver urgently needed research into the link between bushfire smoke exposure and dementia.
Raising $374,000 this #Christmas will allow Associate Professor Michelle Lupton’s team to study 1,800 firefighters in order to better understand the potential impacts of #bushfire smoke on #brain #health, and identify who could be at greatest risk.
The study will include surveying firefighters, measuring historical bushfire smoke exposure to PM2.5, carrying out extensive online cognitive testing, and analysing blood samples for biomarkers of brain inflammation and early-stage #dementia.
This research could help these #community heroes who selflessly protect others, to mitigate their own risk. And with their help, the findings could also ensure early detection and intervention for all Australians to protect their brain health.
Your support will help complete this work. Thank you.
00:00 Rural volunteer firefighter Graham talks about memory loss
00:18 Clear the air on the link between bushfire smoke and brain health - Associate Professor Michelle Lupton speaks about the risks
00:53 Associate Professor Michelle Lupton - hopes to understand bushfire smoke and risk of dementia by recruiting volunteer firefighters
1:39 Volunteer firefighter Gel, Graham's wife - worries about the future of their health
1:54 Why this research is important - Associate Professor Michelle Lupton
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