Professor Brian Priestly
Brian Priestly is a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine. He took up the position of Director of the Australian Centre for Human Health Risk Assessment (ACHHRA) in December 2003. ACHHRA is a consortium of four Australian Universities with expertise in toxicology and environmental health sciences. It is hosted by the Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine with partners from EnTox (UQ), the Department of Environmental Health (Flinders University) and the Faculty of Environmental Sciences (Griffith University). ACHHRA’s objective is to provide a national focus for human health risk assessment, primarily in the area of food and environment pollutants, and to contribute to workforce development in HHRA. ACHHRA’s core funding is from the Public Health Education & Research Program (PHERP) of the Department of Health & Ageing under its Innovations Program.

Prior to leading ACHHRA, Brian was Director of the Laboratories Branch in the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) from 2001-2003. From 1992-2001, he was Scientific Director of the chemicals toxicology and chemicals risk management programs of the Commonwealth Health portfolio. He had overall responsibility for toxicological assessment of pesticides and other toxic chemicals and he provided Health Department input into various national and international chemicals management programs. Brian was a member of the National Drugs & Poisons Committee for several years, he has Chaired the Advisory Committee for Pesticides & Health, and he has been active on several NHMRC technical committees and working groups over the past twenty years.

So he knows about atrazine and risk assessment for health?
and he knows
Michael Moore - EnTox of ‘toxins in Tas Devils and their importance- not, fame’
and
Ricci Paulo - EnTox of ‘Scammell Report - ridiculous nonsense’ fame.