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.

Benjamin Henwood, PhD, LCSW, is the Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health at the University of Southern California (USC). He directs the Homelessness Policy Research Institute, a joint initiative of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and the Sol Price School of Public Policy. Trained as a clinical social worker and researcher, Dr. Henwood specializes in health and housing services research, with a focus on linking clinical interventions to social policy. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and Google.org, which recently supported his research on guaranteed basic income for people experiencing homelessness. Since 2017, he has served as methodological lead for the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, the largest unsheltered count in the United States.

Rebecca Brown, MD, MPH is a geriatrician and an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and a core investigator at the Center for Health Evaluation and Research Promotion at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center. Her research focuses on improving functional status and quality of life for vulnerable older populations, including older adults with experiences of homelessness.

Lara Nixon is an academic family physician and associate professor at the University of Calgary. She has worked clinically with adults experiencing structural vulnerability since 2001. Her research focuses on models of care to promote connection, well-being, and equity, using participatory approaches with older people experiencing homelessness and other community partners, including carers and system planners.

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.