By Lisa Watts
Coyle, a fellow at the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, will direct the Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging.
Caitlin Coyle has been appointed director of the Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging (CSDRA) at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Gerontology Institute.
Coyle, a fellow at the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, has served as a CSDRA research fellow since 2016. She succeeds Jan Mutchler, CSDRA’s founding director and now director of the Gerontology Institute. In 2012, as a UMass Boston gerontology doctoral student, Coyle helped Mutchler launch CSDRA.
CSDRA conducts applied research to assist communities as their populations grow older. The center’s signature projects include:
- The Elder Index, a county-by-county measure of the income older adults need to meet basic living costs.
- Community assessments to support municipalities in meeting their planning goals and educating community members on aging issues.
After receiving her doctorate from UMass Boston in 2014, Coyle served a postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale University School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management before returning to UMass Boston. She earned two concurrent undergraduate degrees in psychology and public affairs journalism from Ohio State University.
Read more about Coyle and CSDRA at the Gerontology Institute Blog.