The ARCH Network leadership team spans two universities –the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) -with complementary strengths in geriatrics, palliative care, life course studies, criminal justice and public health research. Our goal is to leverage these complementary strengths to create a national network of multidisciplinary scholars (e.g. from geriatrics and gerontology, behavioral health, nursing, public health, personal experience and community activism, law, epidemiology, criminology, medicine and others) to advance the science in this emerging research area.