Jessica A. Kelley, PhD, is Professor of Sociology whose research examines health disparities across the life course, focusing on race, socioeconomic status, disability, and aging. An expert in quantitative analysis of longitudinal data, she has published widely on life course influences on functional health, cohort trends, and social inequality in later life. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences (2021–2024) and Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Dr. Kelley also serves on several editorial and advisory boards and has been recognized with awards for her contributions to aging research.

Bussarawan “Puk” Teerawichitchainan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Co-Director of the Centre for Family and Population Research at the National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on family demography, aging, and the life course in Asia, with ongoing projects examining the long-term impacts of war trauma on the health and well-being of older Vietnamese war survivors and the dynamics of childless aging in Singapore and Thailand.

Mieke Beth Thomeer is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research focuses on how families matter for health throughout the life course, with a specific focus on processes related to gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. Her research on childbearing biographies and mid- and later-life health is supported by the National Institute on Aging. She is a former Deputy Editor for the Journal of Marriage and Family.

Yanping Jiang is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers University. She completed postdoctoral training in Health Psychology at Wayne State University and received her PhD in Health Promotion, Education, and Promotion at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Dr. Jiang’s research focuses on advancing the understanding of the biopsychosocial processes through which neighborhood and social factors affect health outcomes in older adults, including older Asian Americans. Her long-term goal is to translate findings from her research and the broader literature into culturally sensitive, scalable intervention strategies to promote healthy aging.

Dr. Perone is the Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services and an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Social Welfare. She is a licensed attorney and interdisciplinary scholar. Prior to her current role, she previously served as a senior health policy fellow at the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She also practiced law for nearly ten years and served as the Executive Director for a community-based nonprofit serving LGBTQIA+ older adults in the United States. Her research examines equitable aging, including intersections in long-term care, LGBTQIA+ aging, and health policy.

Joseph Saenz is an assistant professor with the Center for Innovation in Healthy and Resilient Aging. He focuses his work on understanding and explaining disparities in late-life cognitive outcomes using socioeconomic status, marriage, resilience, and environmental exposures throughout the life-course. He is especially interested in health disparities within the Mexican origin population on both sides of the United States Mexico border.

Suzan van der Pas, PhD, is an associate professor at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care/Health Campus The Hague, Leiden University Medical Centre in The Hague, The Netherlands. Dr. van der Pas earned her PhD at the Vrije University Amsterdam, and her MA in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is a family sociologist and gerontologist with an emphasis on the governance of healthcare and welfare, with a particular focus on ageing. Her research examines processes that enhance intersectoral collaboration in healthcare and social care through an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Her work addresses organizational collaboration across health and social domains, patient and client involvement in community health and prevention, and the influence of social determinants of health on wellbeing.