Pamela (Pam) joined KCL's Department of Psychological Medicine in 2024. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology from UCL. During her doctoral studies, Pamela conducted quantitative analyses on large population surveys investigating the life-course determinants of cognitive ageing and dementia. Additionally, Pamela holds a BSc in Clinical Psychology from Universidad San Francisco de Quito and an MSc in Health Psychology from UCL.

Research interests

• Cognitive ageing and dementia
• Cognitive reserve
• Caregiving in older age and wellbeing
• Longitudinal research on population health
• Inequalities in health outcomes 

Key publications

Almeida-Meza, P., Richards, M., & Cadar, D. (2022). Moderating role of cognitive reserve markers between childhood cognition and cognitive aging: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort. Neurology, 99(12).

Almeida-Meza, P., Steptoe, A., & Cadar, D. (2021). Is engagement in intellectual and social leisure activities protective against dementia risk? Evidence from the English longitudinal study of ageing. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 80(2).

Almeida-Meza, P., Steptoe, A., & Cadar, D. (2020). Markers of cognitive reserve and dementia incidence in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 1-9

Pluck, G., Villagomez-Pacheco, D., Karolys, M., Montaño-Cordova, M., Almeida-Meza, P. (2019).