Dr. Cara Fallon

Biography

Cara Kiernan Fallon is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. Her research focuses on the production of health disparities and the marginalization of the elderly and disabled within foundational health frameworks, chronic diseases, and the global history of health. She is currently working on a book project titled 'Healthy Forever,' which explores the historical and cultural aspirations surrounding medical innovations for healthy aging in the United States and globally. Fallon's work has been supported by various prestigious organizations, including the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Smithsonian Institution. She earned her PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University and holds an MPH from the Yale School of Public Health. Furthermore, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was appointed as a Fellow at the Center for Public Health Initiatives and as a Clark Scholar at the Penn Memory Center. Prior to her academic career, she worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. Fallon earned her BA from Yale in History of Science/History of Medicine, graduating summa cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She teaches courses related to global health, the history of medicine, ethics, and health policy, and advises students in the Global Health Scholars Multidisciplinary Academic Program.

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