CURRICULUM
VITAE
/ BIO
Dr. Gail Charnley is an internationally
recognized scientist specializing in environmental health risk
assessment and risk management science and policy. She has 30
years of experience in the biological, chemical, and social policy
aspects of environmental and public health protection, writing and
speaking extensively on issues related to the roles of science and
democracy in environmental and public health decision-making. Dr.
Charnley focuses on the strategic risk management of complex
scientific issues related to, for example, the design and
implementation of regulatory programs in the United States and Europe,
and on promoting a role for science and analysis in regulatory agendas
worldwide.
She recently served on two National Academy
of Sciences committees, one convened to improve the regulation of low-level
nuclear waste disposal and one convened to provide guidance to the US
Environmental Protection Agency on the future of toxicity testing and
risk analysis. She has also served on and chaired several US
Army Science Advisory Board committees that evaluated science- and
technology-based policies and practices in the Army and on numerous peer review
panels convened by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and
Drug Administration, and Health and Welfare Canada.
From 1994-1997 she was executive director
of the Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and
Risk Management, mandated by Congress to evaluate the roles that risk
assessment and risk management play in federal regulatory programs.
Before her appointment to the Commission, she served as director of
the Toxicology and Risk Assessment Program at the National Academy of
Sciences/National Research Council, where she also served as the
project director for several Academy committees convened to evaluate
and make recommendations concerning science-based public policy
matters.
She lectures frequently on science policy
issues and is the author of numerous reports evaluating the toxicity
of chemical exposures, environmentally related impacts on public
health, the management of risks to health and the environment,
children’s environmental health, and democratic science-based public
policy and decision-making. She is a lifetime fellow and a past president of
the international Society for Risk Analysis, for which she has also
served as councilor, Sigma Xi distinguished lecturer, and chair of the
public policy committee. She holds an AB in biochemistry from
Wellesley College and a PhD in toxicology from MIT.
Dr. Charnley's full
Curriculum Vitae is available in
Adobe Acrobat / PDF format.
