Emily Barrett, Ph.D., is the George G Rhoads Endowed Legacy Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Dr. Barrett is also faculty at the Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, where she is Deputy Director of the NIEHS-funded P30 Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease and co-directs the Maternal-Child Environmental Health Lab. She received her doctoral degree from Harvard University and completed post-doctoral training at UCLA. Her main research interests are in how early life exposures shape our subsequent health and developmental trajectories. Dr. Barrett leads three ongoing pregnancy cohorts, all of which are part of the NIH’s nationwide Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program, the largest study of the health and well-being of United States children. She has been awarded over $20 million dollars in NIH funding across her career and has published over 250 scientific papers, mostly on the reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric health impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals found in consumer products and food.