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Dr. London is Senior Investigator and Deputy Chief of the Epidemiology Branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). She earned her AB, MD and DrPH degrees from Harvard University and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine before coming to NIEHS in 1995. Dr. London’s work focuses on the role of environmental and genomic factors in the etiology of respiratory and allergic health and disease across the life-course. She has extensive experience in genome wide association studies (GWAS) of pulmonary function, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease though her leadership of the (Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Epidemiology) CHARGE pulmonary group and participation in other large consortia. She also conducts experimental studies to follow-up GWAS findings. In 2013, she initiated the Pregnancy and Childhood Epigenetics Consortium (PACE) of birth and childhood cohorts across the world to examine genome wide methylation in relation to prenatal exposures and child health.