Internal Advisory Board

M. Daniele Fallin, PhD, is the James W. Curran Dean of Public Health at Rollins and is globally recognized for her work on how environment, behaviors, genetic variation, and epigenetic variation contribute to risk for psychiatric disease, particularly autism. She was the founding director of the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She led the Maryland site of the Study to Explore Early Development (SEED) and of the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI) for over a decade.

Carmen Marsit, PhD, is the Rollins Distinguished Professor of Research, a professor of environmental health and epidemiology, and the executive associate dean for research at Rollins School of Public Health. He directs the NIH P30 HERCULES Exposome Research Center and the NIEHS T32 Training Program in the Environmental Health Sciences and Toxicology at Emory. He has expertise in environmental health and a strong commitment to the training of next-generation researchers, particularly those from under-represented backgrounds.

Linda McCauley, PhD, is dean of Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, on the governing council of the National Academy of Medicine, and previously served on the National Advisory Council to NIEHS. McCauley’s research focuses on the intersection of environmental and occupational health and nursing using community engagement. She is globally recognized for her three decades of environmental and occupational health research. In the last decade, she has been studying the effects of climate change and heat exposure in vulnerable populations including reproductive health in Florida farmworkers exposed to pesticides, heat, and musculoskeletal stress.

Deborah Bruner, PhD, is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor in Nursing and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. As Emory’s senior vice president for research, Bruner oversees research support, training, innovation, and commercialization services and resources across the entire Emory enterprise. Bruner has played a pivotal role in establishing the Provost’s Emory Climate Research Initiative (ECRI) in 2022 with representatives from all academic units of Emory including Rollins; the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Law, and Theology; Goizueta School of Business; Emory College; and Oxford College.