Tamara Baker, PhD, FGSA, is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an appointed member of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee, the National Institutes of Health Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee, and Editor-in-Chief of Ethnicity & Health. Among Dr. Baker’s activities with the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), she is a former GSA Secretary, served as Chair of the GSA Committee on Minority Issues in Gerontology, founder and co-convener of GSA’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities Collaborative Interest Group, former Chair of the Behavioral and Social Sciences Section, and is the GSA Board of Directors President. Her background in gerontology, psychology, and biobehavioral health has evolved into an active research agenda focusing on health disparities/equity as well as understanding the behavioral and psychosocial predictors and outcomes of chronic pain and pain among older Black adults.

Helene H. Fung is a Professor and former Associate Dean (Student Affairs) of Social Science, former chairperson at the Dept of Psychology, the Executive Director of the Centre for Positive Social Science and a Deputy Director of the Institute of Ageing, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She examines socioemotional ageing across cultures. She is included on a list of the top 2% of working scientists world-wide and is ranked among Top Scientists in Psychology in China by Research.com. She is a senior associate editor for the Australian Journal of Psychology, and an associate editor for Cognition and Emotion.

Denis Gerstorf is Professor and chair of Developmental Psychology at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. As lifespan developmental scholar, he is interested in better understanding how our everyday lives and the long-term developmental trajectories we are on are often closely intertwined with and co-regulated by the contexts in which we live. He is also Research Fellow at the German Socio-Economic Panel, one of the longest-running national surveys worldwide. Dr. Gerstorf serves as Editor of the Behavioral Sciences section of Gerontology and has been for many years in that role for Psychology and Aging and the International Journal of Behavioral Development. He is Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and chairperson of the interdisciplinary, multi-institutional consortium of the Berlin Aging Study-II (https://www.base2.mpg.de/en). His work has received numerous acknowledgements (e.g., Early Career Achievement Awards from APA and GSA, Innovative Publication Award of GSA).