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DANIELE (DANI) FALLIN, PhD, is the Sylvia and Harold Halpert Professor and Chair of the Department of Mental Health and the Director of the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also holds joint appointments in School’s Epidemiology and Biostatistics Departments as well as in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry. She earned a PhD in Genetic Epidemiology at Case Western Reserve University before coming to Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor in Epidemiology in 2001. She has served as a standing member of two epidemiology-focused NIH study sections, including current membership of NAME, and is a past Special Editor for Genetics for the journal Epidemiology. Her research group studies how environments, behaviors, genetic variation, and epigenetic variation contribute to risk for psychiatric disease, particularly autism. She is the PI of the Maryland site of the SEED study (Study to Explore Early Development), a multi-site case-control study of autism genetic and environmental risk factors and the EARLI study (Early Autism Research Longitudinal Investigation), a prospective pregnancy cohort focused on causes of autism. She has further led GWAS and EWAS studies based on SEED, EARLI, and other autism samples.