Ultan McCaffrey, MPH ’25, has been able to combine his interest in space medicine with his work in geriatric psychiatry in Harvard Chan School’s MPH-GEN program
Ultan McCaffrey would love to be the first astronaut from Ireland. In 2021 he gave it a go, making it through a few stages of the European Space Agency’s highly competitive astronaut selection process.
While ultimately missing out, it’s still a dream for the future. In the meantime, McCaffrey is quite happy with his Earth job as an attending physician specializing in geriatric psychiatry,…