Michelle Embry

Dr. Michelle Embry is the Deputy Director of the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) a non-profit organization with a mission to develop science for a safer, more sustainable world. She holds a PhD in toxicology and a BS from Duke University and has nineteen years of experience in human and health and ecological risk assessment. Dr. Embry has over sixty publications and has served on numerous international advisory committees. Her current projects involve ecological and human health risk assessment, including the Next Generational Ecological Risk Assessment and PBPK Committees, and the RISK21 project. She is the lead for the HESI Global Risk Assessment Training Consortium, an initiative aimed at increasing availability of foundational chemical risk assessment training and resources, particularly in low and middle-income and resource-limited regions. Prior to joining HESI in 2006 she was a risk assessor at the USEPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs.