Dr. Sarah Canham is a Professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Utah, where she also serves as the Associate Director of the Health Interprofessional Education program. She earned her master's in applied sociology and doctorate in gerontology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her community-based research focuses on homelessness, access to health and social services, and aging, collaborating with providers, clinicians, and individuals with lived experience.

Jared N. Schachner is a Research Scientist at the USC Price School of Public Policy, affiliated with the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and the Homelessness Policy Research Institute. He previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago’s Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and earned his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University, where he was a JCHS Meyer Fellow. His research examines how transformations in urban social infrastructure reshape racial and socioeconomic inequalities. Recent studies focus on the equity implications of one such transformation -- Housing First service expansion -- in Los Angeles County. He is currently partnering with the county to lead a HUD-funded youth needs assessment that integrates administrative data (e.g., HMIS) with an original survey of young people who have experienced homelessness. The project aims to identify key assets—within and beyond the homelessness services system—that support housing stability throughout young adulthood.