Carol J. Henry is a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and an advisor and consultant to public and private organizations, focusing on issues in toxicology, public and environmental health, risk assessment and risk management, research management strategies, and green chemistry and engineering technology and sustainable practices.
She currently serves as Environmental Health Advisor to Cummins, Inc., and as Consultant to the Society of Automotive Engineers International (SAE). She was previously Vice President of Industry Performance Programs at the American Chemistry Council; Director of the Health and Environmental Sciences Department of the American Petroleum Institute; Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Risk Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy; and Director of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) at the California Environmental Protection Agency, and Executive Director of the International Life Sciences Institute Risk Science Institute.
She is a diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology, certified in general toxicology. She is a member of the Joint Committee on the ANSI NSF Green Chemistry Institute Greener Chemical Products and Processes Standard Initiative and the National Research Council’s Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. She is a member of two current National Research Council Committees: Strengthening the US Environmental Protection Agency Laboratory Enterprise and Design and Evaluation of Safer Chemical Substitutes. She is an elected Councilor for the American Chemical Society (ACS) and serves on the ACS Committee for Environmental Improvement. She serves as a reviewer for Environmental Health Perspectives, Critical Reviews in Toxicology and Environmental Science and Technology.