People

Research Interests

Translating the epidemiology of aging into policies that promote healthy longevity globally.

Chair, Biological Complexity and Healthy Longevity

Research Interests

Integrating evolutionary, physiological, and epidemiological perspectives to understand how the countless molecules and structures in our bodies coordinate as an ensemble to maintain dynamic equilibrium, and to understand how these processes change during aging.

Lead, Program in Global Health and Aging

Research Interests

Global health and aging, with a particular focus on low and middle income countries in South Asia, China and Africa.  Implications of cultural, social and economic aspects of longevity and effects on aging, health and disease in aging, and health systems; theory and political economy of aging; intergenerationality.

Affiliations

Director, Yusuf Hamied Fellows Program

Senior Science and Strategy Officer
Co-Lead, MPH Health of an Aging Society Certificate and CAC Longevity Fellows Program
Senior Administrator, CUIMC Healthy Longevity Initiative (CHAI)
Senior Administrator, Yusuf Hamied Fellowship Program

Caitlin builds interdisciplinary partnerships and identifies research synergies among campus faculty, visiting international and U.S. scholars, and trainees.

Caitlin served on the board of directors of Bloomingdale Aging in Place (BAiP) from 2011-2016 . An all-volunteer, intergenerational network of neighbors based on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, BAiP is dedicated to helping older adults lead vital, connected, safe and comfortable lives as their needs change.  Until 2021, she oversaw 1200 activity points each year as co-chairman of BAiP's activities sector, serving 1400 older adults.  BAiP was awarded the 2016 Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize. 

Prior to joining the Center, Caitlin was the Executive Director of the Pasteur Foundation, the U.S. representative office of the Institut Pasteur, based in Paris.  She established the Pasteur Foundation Award, which honors distinguished industry leaders, Nobel Laureates and policymakers for their furtherance of public health.  Under her leadership, the Foundation's scope grew to encompass a range of scientific training and bilateral exchange programs with France and the United States, as well as a global cooperative agreement between the Department for Health and Human Services and the International Network of the Institut Pasteur. Caitlin  also served as an advisor to the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation, and spearheaded the organization of events marking the centenary of Jonas Salk throughout 2014 and 2015.

She graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a dual degree in Anthropology and French.

The French Government named her Chevalier in the National Order of Merit in 2005 and Chevalier in the National Order of the Legion of Honor in 2012.  In 2015, she received the Reid Hall Golden Jubilee Medal from Columbia University's Global Center | Europe.  She is the recipient of the 2019 Columbia Mailman School of Public Health Staff Excellence Award. And in her community she was recognized with the 2021 Jim Torain Award of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group.

Education

BA, University of Pennsylvania

Honors and Awards

Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group Jim Tourain Award, 2021
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health Staff Excellence Award, 2019
Reid Hall Golden Jubilee Medal, Columbia University's Global Center: Europe, 2015
Chevalier, French National Order of the Legion of Honor, 2012
Chevalier, French National Order of Merit, 2005