Carrie Breton, ScD, is Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Director of the Maternal And Developmental Risks from Environmental and Social Stressors (MADRES) Center for Environmental Health Disparities, which she has co-led for the past 9 years. Dr. Breton’s work addresses the interplay between environmental health inequities, social stressors, and epigenetic mechanisms underlying child health outcomes, with a focus on cardiometabolic and respiratory health. Her work takes a multigenerational approach examining whether prenatal and postpartum environmental exposures to air pollutants, tobacco smoke, heavy metals and chemicals, coupled with exposures to psychosocial and built environment stressors, affect birth outcomes, infant growth trajectories and increased childhood obesity risk. Additional work has investigated how environmental exposures alter epigenetic profiles in pregnancy and in newborns and young children, and what roles those changes play in responding to environmental exposures and driving disease risk, particularly in vulnerable populations. She has conducted both epigenome-wide and targeted epigenomic investigations, as well as multi-generational investigations, to better understand the roles of DNA methylation and miRNA underlying environment health effects. Dr. Breton holds an ScD in Epidemiology from Harvard T Chan School of Public Health, an MPH from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA from Amherst College.