SARAH CANHAM

Sarah Canham, PhD, FGSA is a Professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Utah; she is also the Associate Director of the University’s Health Interprofessional Education program. Dr. Canham’s community-based research engages with a broad network of providers, clinicians, and persons with lived experience to examine homelessness, housing security, health and social service delivery, and aging. Using a social justice lens, Sarah’s work seeks solutions to systemic barriers to aging well in various environments. Sarah completed her doctorate in Gerontology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and postdoctoral training, first in the Department of Mental Health at The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and later in the Gerontology Research Centre at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC where she remains an adjunct professor in the Department of Gerontology. Sarah is also the Project Director for a Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation/Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded Partnership Grant entitled, Aging in the Right Place: Building Capacity for Promising Practices that Support Older People Experiencing Homelessness in Montréal, Calgary, and Vancouver. In 2020, Sarah was inducted as a Fellow into the Gerontological Society of America.