Dr. Tamara Baker is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an appointed member of the US Department of Veterans Affairs Geriatric and Gerontology Advisory Committee, the National Institutes of Health’s Interagency Pain Coordinating Committee, and Editor-in-Chief of Ethnicity & Health. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), and past chair of GSA’s Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) section, which is the largest section of the organization. Her background in Gerontology, Psychology, and Biobehavioral Health has evolved into an active research agenda focusing on health disparities/equity; and understanding the behavioral and psychosocial predictors and outcomes of chronic pain and pain among older Black adults.