Jackie Wright

Biography

Jackie Wright has over 20 years experience in human health and environmental risk assessment in Australia. Experience includes leading and developing a national risk practice group for a major consultancy, training of staff, providing technical (and toxicological) direction, developing internal technical standards, participating in the development on industry guidance and standards, developing appropriate risk models and providing peer-review. Areas of expertise include toxicological review and evaluation of chemicals in line with Australian regulatory requirements, human health and environmental risk assessment, exposure modelling, indoor air quality assessment, environmental monitoring, and the assessment of air emissions and air toxics. She has experience in a wide range of human health and environmental risk assessments on over 200 sites across Australia that involve the evaluation of emissions to air, waste sites, residential and recreation areas, operating industrial plants as well as other industrial plants that have been closed and are in the process of property sales or redevelopment. In addition, she has extensive experience in the assessment of vapour migration, detailed evaluation of exposure by occupational, residential and recreational groups including the application of probability distributions to human health risk assessment. Jackie also been involved in a number of key projects that require regular risk communication with interest groups, including resident action groups. 

Research Interest

Human Health Risk Assessment Environmental Risk Assessment Exposure Assessment Vapour Migration and Intrusion Toxicology Air Quality Hazard Assessment