Dr. Linda P. Fried is dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, where she is the DeLamar Professor of Public Health and has led the introduction of an innovative Master of Public Health curriculum that emphasizes a life-course approach to prevention of disease and disability. She also is the designer and co-founder of Experience Corps, a scientifically designed community-based program in 19 cities that puts senior volunteers to work in public schools.
Before coming to Columbia in 2008 as dean of the Mailman School, Dr. Fried founded the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health, directed the Program in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging and the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and held joint appointments in the schools of medicine, nursing and public health.
A paper co-authored by Dr. Fried in 2012, "Aging, Climate Change, and Legacy Thinking," was recognized for excellence as a 2013 American Journal of Public Health Paper of the Year. She is the recipient of a Merit Award from the National Institute on Aging, a 2011 Silver Innovator's Award from the Alliance for Aging Research, the Enrico Greppi Prize from the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics, and the 2012 Longevity Prize from Fondation Ipsen. Both the American Federation for Aging Research and the American Geriatrics Society have recognized her for career contributions to research on aging. In 2004, she was named a "Living Legend in Medicine" by the U.S. Congress.
Dr. Fried received her M.D. degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago and her master's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins.
