Henry Brodaty lives in Sydney, Australia where he is the Professor of Psychogeriatrics at the University of New South Wales and the Director of the Academic Department for Old Age Psychiatry at the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals. After graduating in medicine from the University of Sydney, he became a Fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and later of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. In 1985 he completed a doctoral thesis at the University of New South Wales on developing and evaluating a model of brief dynamic psychotherapy in general practice. He has received many awards, published widely and is on the editorial boards of several journals.

Professor Brodaty has had strong clinical and academic interests in both dementia and general practice for over twenty years. He was a founding member of and has had many executive positions in Alzheimer's Associations at state, national and international levels. Currently he is the Chairman of Alzheimer's Disease International. He established and heads a memory disorders clinic, advises on state and federal governments on dementia and psychogeriatric policy, was a member of the NSW Guardianship Tribunal, founded and chaired the Australian Consortium of Centres for Clinical Cognitive Research and is an active researcher in the field, especially with regards to caregivers and behavioural disturbances complicating dementia. A brief period working in general practice stimulated his interest in general practice research, especially in ways of enhancing the abilities of general practitioners to detect and manage mental disorders associated with ageing.