Dr. Mulhorn, Professor and Department Chair, is a faculty member in health administration with 24 years of teaching experience in health management and aging. She has an extensive research background in aging, disability and functioning and community-based participatory research (CBPR) in urban settings. In cross-national studies of functioning of aging in the community, Dr. Mulhorn has been a visiting scientist at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology and at INSERM in France, both key locations for research on healthy aging in the community. She has taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in health administration, long-term care administration, global health, health policy, gerontology, disability studies, biostatistics and research methods. She has led internship programs including a graduate-level internship at the United Nations in Disability Statistics. Dedicated to global teaching, she led two study abroad programs: "Disability and the Paralympics" in London and "Aging, Technology and Japanese Culture" in Japan. She also implemented a study abroad program to Costa Rica as part of the Master of Health Administration program. She is a faculty mentor for doctoral students focusing on aging and disability. Current research includes interventions in the community to delay cognitive decline among older persons. With design faculty collaboration, she is creating methods for health design to improve the patient journey for older persons in various healthcare settings.
Other Research Interests:
A research focus is the application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in the considerations of barriers to health and health services for those living with disability, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Projects include urban aging and culturally competent interventions for healthy aging in disparity populations and mechanisms for social interaction to maximize health among those 65 and older.
Kristine Mulhorn PhD, MHSA, FGSA