Heather Henry, Ph.D.

Heather Henry, Ph.D., is a health scientist administrator for National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) where she oversees Superfund Research Program (SRP) grants that span human health toxicology, risk assessment, detection technologies and remediation approaches. She provides guidance to potential applicants for SRP’s Multi-Project Center Grants (P42s), Individual Research Grants (R01s), and Small Business / Technology Transfer Grants (R41-44; SBIR/STTR). She serves on several working groups including: Federal Remediation Technology Roundtable; Federal PFAS Strategy Team; National Nanotechnology Initiative Water Sustainability Team; NIEHS Microbiome; NIEHS Emerging Contaminants; and NIH Disaster Research Response. She has been with NIEHS since 2006. Prior to that, Heather studied bioremediation as part of her doctoral work at the University of Cincinnati and as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne and University of Adelaide in Australia.