Lynn R. Goldman, a pediatrician and an epidemiologist, is the Michael and Lori Milken Dean and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University. She was previously a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she directed the Office of Chemical Safety and Prevention; and Chief of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control at the California Department of Public Health. She completed a BS and MS from UC Berkeley, an MD from UC San Francisco, an MPH from Johns Hopkins University, and a pediatric residency at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). She serves as a Trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Environmental Health Matters Initiative, and a member of the NASEM Committee on Managed Retreat in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region.