Emanuela Taioli received her M.D. from the University of Milan in 1981. She then attended Columbia University, where she received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Epidemiology. In 2015, she joined Mount Sinai as a Professor of Population Health and Science, and of Thoracic Surgery; the Director of the Institute for Translational Epidemiology; and the Director of the Center for the Study of Thoracic Diseases Outcomes. She is also the Associate Director for Population Science and a Co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Tisch Cancer Institute. As Associate Director, she oversees the epidemiological, behavioral, and health service research activities of TCI’s multi-disciplinary faculty with the goal of securing designation of TCI as a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Comprehensive Cancer Center—a level higher than the NCI Cancer Center designation that TCI obtained in 2015, reflecting an added depth and breadth of research as well as substantial transdisciplinary research. Before joining the school, she was the Chief of Epidemiology for Northwell Health System at Hofstra School of Medicine. Among her most important contributions are those to the field of cancer prevention, including the study of cancer risk factors in healthy populations, cancer-predisposing factors, hormone metabolism, and genetic susceptibility to environmental exposure.