Linda P. Fried (born 1949) is an American geriatrician and epidemiologist, who is also the first female Dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

She received her MD from Rush Medical College in Chicago[3] in 1979 and her MPH at Johns Hopkins in 1984, where she worked with Paul Whelton.

Fried developed biologically-based theory regarding the clinical presentation or phenotype of frailty and hypotheses regarding its etiology in dysregulation of genes and some physiologic systems.

[8] In the early 1990s, Fried collaborated with the social activist Marc Freedman and others to design and develop a nationwide volunteer program called Experience Corps.

The program trains adult volunteers, ages 55 and older, to improve the academic success of students in economically disadvantaged public elementary schools.

[8] The revised curriculum, which includes leadership training and case-study based instruction in applying theory to practice, debuted in the fall of 2012.