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Maureen Henry, JD, PhD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor, Columbia Aging Center Senior Advisor, Health and Aging Policy Fellows
Columbia University
New York City, New York, United States

Maureen Henry has 25 years of cross-disciplinary experience in aging policy, health policy, qualitative research, and program management at the state and federal levels. Currently, Maureen is Deputy Director for the ILC-USA, Assistant Professor at the Columbia Aging Center and Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health, and the and Senior Advisor to the Health and Aging Policy Fellows. Previously, she was a Senior Program Officer and Study Director for the Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity at the National Academy of Medicine, and a Senior Manager at CVP Health. From 2014 to 2019, she was a Research Scientist at NCQA, where she focused on measures for older persons and those with multiple chronic conditions, serious illness (hospice and palliative care), and renal disease. As a Health and Aging Policy Fellow, Maureen worked for U.S. Senator Mark Warner’s (D-VA) . In that role, she assisted with negotiating and drafting the Care Planning Act of 2013 and met with constituents in DC and Virginia. Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman appointed Maureen as the Executive Director of the Utah Commission on Aging in 2005. Over seven years,she led the process of rewriting the state’s advance directive and POLST laws, successfully introduced legislation to allow geriatricians to participate in loan forgiveness programs, and collaborated with agencies such as AARP and the United Way to meet the needs of older adults in Utah. She secured funding to create the Utah Aging and Disability Center in 2009 and directed the program through 2012. Before 2005, Maureen practiced elder law and was a Project Director at HealthInsight (now Comagine Health), leading a state-wide partnership on end-of-life care. She was awarded a J.D. by the University of California Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) and a Ph.D. in Nursing Research from the University of Utah.

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