Carol Henry American Chemistry Council Vice President, Science and Research

Dr. Henry serves as Vice President for Science and Research at the American Chemistry Council (ACC). She directs and manages the ACC's Long-Range Research Initiative (LRI) that is designed to study the potential impacts of chemicals on health and the environment. Key objectives of this comprehensive program include: conducting new research through world-renowned scientific institutions, developing new tools to support risk assessment, and supporting informed decision-making by government, industry and citizens. The LRI is a global initiative of the chemical industry and Dr. Henry manages the international interactions with LRI programs in Europe and Japan. Dr. Henry received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota and doctorate in microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh. In addition, Dr. Henry held postdoctoral fellowships in biochemistry at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, in biology at Princeton University, and biochemistry/cancer research at the Sloan Kettering Institute. Prior to joining the American Chemistry Council in May 1999, Dr. Henry served as director of the Health and Environmental Sciences Department of the American Petroleum Institute (API) and as API's chief scientist. Before joining API in 1997, Dr. Henry completed five years of public service, serving as associate deputy assistant secretary for Science and Risk Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy, and as director of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) at the California Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to that appointment, she was executive director of the International Life Sciences Institute's Risk Science Institute. A diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology, Dr. Henry is a member of the American College of Toxicology, of which she has been president, the Society of Toxicology, the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Chemical Society. She served on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Toxicology Program, the EPA Clean Air Act Science Advisory Committee's Blue Ribbon Panel on Oxygenates in Gasoline, the DOD, DOE, EPA Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Science Advisory Board, and as a Consultant to the EPA's Science Advisory Board's Executive Committee. She recently completed two terms as a member of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the National Research Council (NRC) and as a member of the NRC Committee to Review EPA's Research Grants Program. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of CIIT Centers for Health Research, the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine of the Institute of Medicine; the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the NRC, and as a member of Environmental Health Perspectives Editorial Review Board.

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