Carol J. Henry, PhD, DABT

Dr. Henry is a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services and a consultant to Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International. She teaches in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and advises organizations on issues in toxicology, risk assessment, public and environmental health, and sustainable green chemistry and engineering practices. 

She retired as Vice President, Industry Performance Programs, at the American Chemistry Council in November 2007. Previously, Dr. Henry served as Director of the Health and Environmental Sciences Department at 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. As Director of OEHHA, she was appointed by the Governor of California and confirmed by the California State Senate. 

She is Chair of the Federal Advisory Committee for the National Children’s Study; Co-Chair of the Montgomery County Maryland Water Quality Advisory Group; and a Councilor and Past-President of the Chemical Society of Washington of the American Chemical Society. She is a member of the Joint Committee on the ANSI NSF Green Chemistry Institute Greener Chemical Products and Processes Standard Initiative; the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology of the National Research Council; the Environmental Health Perspectives Editorial Board; the American College of Toxicology, of which she was president; the Society of Toxicology; and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Henry received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota and doctorate in microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh. She held postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute in Tubingen, Germany; Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey; and Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology, certified in general toxicology.