Gavin W. Hougham, PhD, is a sociologist, educator, and currently Director of Development at the Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation in New York City. Previously, he was a research executive at New York Medical College. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Home Care Policy and Research at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, where he led a team studying the experiences of home health aides of working during the pandemic. Previously, he was Director of Battelle's Seattle office, where he managed 25 social and public health scientists, and where he also led the launch of Battelle's national Aging & Gerontology Research Practice. He was formerly tenure line faculty at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine and the Department of Medicine, where his research often borrowed advanced data analysis tools from other disciplines (computer science, genomics, linguistics). Dr. Hougham taught undergraduate and graduate social science and clinical research methods at UChicago as Deputy Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences. As a Co-Principal in ChicagoPhDs, a professional services consultancy, he provides services to the health care research and education sectors and the Japanese <> English market research industry. Earlier, he was Senior Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation in NY (a private non-profit philanthropy), developing and managing a $60 million medicine program portfolio. Dr. Hougham’s work there included expanding the nation’s output of medical, nursing, and social work geriatrics faculty, increasing the numbers of professional students interested in the care of older adults and supporting the development of new care models. He was instrumental in the Foundation’s work that resulted in the Institute of Medicine’s landmark 2008 report, Retooling for an Aging America. Prior to joining Hartford, Dr. Hougham was in the Section of Geriatrics at the University of Chicago Medical Center, leaving as Director of Research. Dr. Hougham started his career as a Public Health Advisor with Wisconsin's Division of Public Health. He has published on a variety of health-focused topics, such as using electronic health record data to map sequences and recovery outcome trajectories of disease; using artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve the health of older adults; research ethics in the context of dementia; informed consent; palliative care; end-of-life issues, social support, and cross-cultural (Japanese) gerontology.