The Crawford Lecture was endowed in the memory of Geraldine Crawford to provide education for the community. The 2026 Crawford speaker is Sarah DiGregorio, the critically acclaimed author of Early: An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What it Teaches Us About Being Human, and Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and its Power to Change Our World. She is a freelance journalist who has written on health care and other topics for the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, Insider, and Catapult.