Katherine Ornstein is Director of the Center for Equity in Aging and Professor in the School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins with joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She received her PhD in epidemiology from Columbia University where she was a predoctoral fellow in psychiatric epidemiology. Her work is focused on improving health and healthcare for older adults with serious illness and their caregivers with a focus on advancing equity. She is a recognized expert in home-based care delivery, family and paid caregiving, dementia care and health care delivery at the end-of-life. Her research includes work on the downstream economic effects of health care and bereavement on families and caregivers; the epidemiology of the homebound population; burden and cost in dementia caregiving; and home-based palliative care. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and past recipient of the Dan Gilden creative investigator award from the American Academy of Home Care Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty at Hopkins in 2022, she served as Research Director for the Institute for Care Innovations at Home at Mount Sinai Hospital.