Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN researches ways to understand and change the conditions in which some older adults age with more autonomy and health than others.  She is the Health Equity and Social Justice Endowed Professor and Director of the Center for Innovative Care in Aging at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.  She has received numerous awards including the Heinz award for improving the Human Condition and PBS’s "Next Avenue 2016 Influencers in Aging". Dr. Szanton holds appointments in Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, and the Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. She has been by funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, and the AARP Foundation.

Deidra Crews, MD, ScM, FASN, FACP researches ways to mitigate disparities in the care and outcomes of chronic kidney disease. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She holds appointments with the School of Nursing, the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, the Center on Aging and Health, and the Center for Health Equity, where she is Associate Director for Research Development.   She has received numerous awards for her research, including the 2018 Johns Hopkins University President’s Frontier Award--a $250,000 award granted to a single faculty scholar on the cusp of transforming their field. A National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine scholar, she was the inaugural Gilbert S. Omenn Fellow of the NAM. In 2019, she received the W. Lester Henry Award for Diversity and Access to Care from the American College of Physicians and the Distinguished Leader Award from the American Society of Nephrology.