Cara Fallon
- Senior Lecturer
- Director of Undergraduate Studies in Global Health
- Co-Director, Peacebuilding Initiative
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Office location
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Steinbach Hall
52 Hillhouse Avenue
About
In her research, Cara Kiernan Fallon analyzes the production of health disparities, the marginalization of the elderly and disabled from basic frameworks of health, and chronic disease in global health history. Her current book project, Healthy Forever, examines the history of cultural aspirations and medical innovations for healthy aging in the U.S. and the world. Her work has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Smithsonian Institutes, and the Consortium for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology.
Combining her interdisciplinary training in history, ethics, public health, and industry, she teaches courses in global health, the history of medicine, ethics, and health policy.
Fallon completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was also appointed a fellow in the Center for Public Health Initiatives and a Clark Scholar at the Penn Memory Center. Prior to her academic training, she worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs.
Education
- PhD in History of Science, Harvard University, 2018
- Master of Public Health, Yale University, 2008
- BA in History of Science, Yale University, 2007