A nationally known expert in pediatric asthma, Lynn Gerald focuses on implementing asthma management programs in schools. She was instrumental in passing legislation allowing stock inhalers in Arizona schools and collaborated with the Pima County Health Department and the Pima County Superintendent's Office to implement a stock inhaler program in all of the county's300 schools. She serves as a consultant for other states seeking to pass similar legislation. Gerald also works to implement methods for school-based asthma case detection and internet-based asthma monitoring. She has extensive experience in clinical, behavioral and epidemiological research in asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and tuberculosis.

Gerald is the Zuckerman Family Endowed Chair in Prevention and Lifestyle Medicine in the Department of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. She is a scientist in the university's Asthma and Airways Disease Research Center.

Gerald is actively involved in professional and community education related to asthma, and has served on many national and local boards including the American Thoracic Society Board of Directors and the American Lung Association of Southern Arizona Board of Directors. She serves as principal investigator of the American Lung Association Asthma Clinical Research Center at the University of Arizona and co-principal investigator of a project focused on implementing interventions on the Navajo Nation to improve health disparities in pediatric asthma.