Dr. Rob Warren is a co-principal investigator for NLS:72. Since 2012, he has co-led the 2013-2015 and 2021 follow-ups of the High School & Beyond (HS&B:80) cohort. In recent years, he has led an effort to link records from several major surveys of older Americans to records from the 1940 US Census. With the latter data resource, he has modeled the long-term consequences for health and well-being of childhood exposure to lead and coal-powered electrical plants. Dr. Warren founded the Population Studies training program and was the inaugural co-director of the Population Health Sciences training program. He has served on standing review panels for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).