Chemical toxicology (hazard and risk assessment)
Experience
The Institute includes highly experienced toxicologists, environmental and human health scientists, and risk assessors, who together have wide-ranging experience of risk assessment and risk perception and communication. Other expertise available through the Institute includes epidemiology, statistics and occupational medicine. Together, this multidisciplinary team is able to address a wide range of issues relating to the assessment of the toxicological properties (hazard) of chemicals, and exposure and risk assessment in relation to both environmental and occupational scenarios. The Institute also has close working relationships with other acknowledged international experts in fields as diverse as food toxicology, neurotoxicology and neurobehaviour, biomarkers and chemical exposure.
The work of the Institute scientists is supported by an impressive Information Science facility with direct access to extensive on-line and library facilities, and a database analyst and programmer with experience in GIS and modelling.
Relevant areas of scientific expertise include:
- Environmental chemistry
- Epidemiology and statistics
- General (mammalian) toxicology
- Indoor air quality
- Occupational toxicology and medicine
- Occupational standard setting
- Pathology
- Pesticide science
- Regulatory toxicology
- Risk assessment
- Risk perception and communication
- Soil toxicology
