Cara Kiernan Fallon is a senior lecturer in global health and the director of undergraduate studies (DUS) of the Global Health Studies Program at the Jackson School of Global Affairs. 

Her research 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.

Cara Fallon holds a PhD in the history of science from Harvard University and an MPH from the Yale School of Public Health. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was also appointed as 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. She earned a BA from Yale in history of science/history of medicine, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

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. She advises the Global Health Scholars in the Multidisciplinary Academic Program.