He has led a large research program focusing on minority children and geneenvironment interactions since 2001. Dr. Burchard serves as an advisor to the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. Congress on gene-environment interactions. Dr. Burchard has expertise in the field of precision medicine and served on the Expert Panel for President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. He initiated and now directs four independent asthma studies in minority children. He has assembled a collaborative team of coinvestigators on several projects with specific expertise in genetics, social and environmental epidemiology.