Shuk-mei Ho, PhD, Jacob G. Schmidlapp Professor and Chair of Environmental Health, has accepted a post to the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council (NAEHSC) for a four-year term. NAEHS is a congressionally-mandated body that advises the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) on matters relating to the direction of research, research support, training and career development supported by the NIEHS. An important function of the council is secondary review of research grant applications with a focus on NIEHS scientific program priorities and program balance.