thelongevityforum.com/ Linda Fried is Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. A world-renowned geriatrician and epidemiologist, Dr. Fried is a serial innovator, known for tackling the major issues of our lengthening lives. Her scientific contributions include creating the transformational science defining frailty as a medical condition; research on the natural history of frailty and disability; and illuminating their causes and the potential for prevention and treatment as keys to optimizing health for older adults. She is the designer and founder of Experience Corps, an evidence-based senior volunteer program in which older adults serve in public schools. The program was found to simultaneously prevent cognitive loss and functional decline in the volunteers while benefiting students. Dean Fried advocates for the potential of longer lives to be the basis of a Third Demographic Dividend whereby society benefits from the social capital of older adults and invests in health promotion across the life course. Under her leadership, the Columbia University Mailman School has developed new dimensions of public health science, from the University-wide Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center to the new science of precision prevention, and has become a key leader in innovation in public health education and in intersectoral partnerships for health. Dean Fried was named one of the 1% most influential scientific minds of the past decade in 2014 by Thomson Reuters. She is an elected member of the US National Academy of Medicine, and of its executive Council. In 2016-17 she served as the President of the Association of American Physicians. The recipient of numerous awards and prizes, she received the French National INSERM International Prize in Medical Research in 2017.

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