Dr Peter Di Marco PhD FATS
Managing Director & Principal Consultant, BenchMark Toxicology Services. 
President, ACTRA
President Elect, International Union of Toxicology

Dr Peter Di Marco professional interests and expertise include toxicology, health risk assessment, regulatory compliance and biological monitoring and a wide range of experience in other disciplines and work areas. He has worked in academia, government and industry encompassing biomedical research, teaching, chemical regulation and management of chemicals in the environment for over 40 years, including Post-Doctoral biochemical research (Monash University, Murdoch University) Senior Preclinical Toxicology Evaluator (Therapeutic Goods Administration); Principal Toxicologist (Department of Health WA, Environmental Health, and consulting companies - Golder Associates; and Benchmark Toxicology Services).

His professional focus includes regulatory toxicology and regulatory affairs; environmental and biological monitoring in mining and refinery workers; occupational health and indoor air quality; occupational hygiene; emissions to ambient air from power generation plants, mining, processing and refining of metals; and various other industrial facilities; soil and water contamination; and air and water quality standards and guidelines.  In addition, community consultation and risk communication; regulatory toxicology; principles and regulatory requirements for managing medicines and poisons; and international transboundary movement of hazardous waste.

Peter has been instrumental in, and contributor to, the development of various environmental health guidelines on air, water and soil quality in Australia; has a distinguished list of publications and contributions to scientific activities; and has served on a number of professional/advisory committees and panels at State, Commonwealth and international level. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (USA) since 2002; co-founder, Vice President and President up to August 2019 (three two-year terms each) of the Australasian College of Toxicology and Risk Assessment; and current President Elect up to July 2019 then President of the International Union of Toxicology (three-year terms each).

Dr Paul Foster

Former Chief of the Toxicology Branch of the Division of the National Toxicology Program (NTP), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Dr Paul Foster was Chief of the Toxicology Branch of the Division of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, NC. The Toxicology Branch is responsible for the scientific leadership of the NTP’s cancer and non-cancer testing Program. Dr. Foster’s research interests span from understanding the potential human health effects of environmental endocrine disruptors (particularly antiandrogens); mechanisms of testicular toxicity; the study of early testicular Leydig cell dysfunction induced by chemicals as a prelude to hyperplasia and tumors and the toxicokinetic and dynamic parameters affecting the induction of reproductive and developmental toxicity. He also has a broad interest in risk assessment issues in these areas.

Dr. Foster was presented with the European Society of Toxicology’s young scientist award in 1988 for his work on testicular toxicity and the Society of Toxicology (SOT)’s Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology specialty section award for best paper published in Toxicological Sciences in 2001 and 2004. He has been awarded four NIH merit awards and an EPA Bronze medal. Dr Foster is a member of a number of learned Societies dealing with toxicology and reproduction. He is a former Chair and member of the Continuing Education Committee (1996-1999), Science Program Committee (2009-2013) and a Past President of the Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology specialty section (1997-2001) of the Society of Toxicology. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (2011) and was elected to the Board of Directors in 2014. Dr. Foster has served on the editorial boards of Reproductive Toxicology, Birth Defects Research: Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology and as an Associate Editor of Toxicological Sciences. Dr Foster is the author or co-author of over 130 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and numerous regulatory study reports.

Dr Clare Looker
Acting Senior Medical Advisor (Environment), Health Protection Branch, Regulation, Health Protection and Emergency Management Division, Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria

Dr Clare Looker is a public health registrar at the Department of Health and Human Services. After several years working in clinical medicine, Clare travelled to London to complete a Master of Science (Epidemiology). She then remained in the UK for three years working as an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Whilst there she developed a particular interest in environmental public health and epidemiology.

In her current role, Clare works predominantly with the environment section of the Health Protection Branch. Working closely with the Deputy Chief Health Officer and Senior Medical Advisor, she provides public health medicine expertise in risk management for issues, incidents and emergencies related to environmental hazards, food safety and regulation, radiation safety and emergency management.

Professor Claire Roberts
Lloyd Cox Professorial Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
Deputy Director, Robinson Research Institute

Claire Roberts is the Lloyd Cox Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, Deputy Director of the Robinson Research Institute and leads its Pregnancy and Birth Theme and its Cohort and Intergenerational Studies Facility. Claire Roberts is President of the International Federation of Placenta Associations and Past President of the Australian and New Zealand Placenta Research Association. She is an internationally recognized authority and thought leader in placenta research. Claire is Scientific Director of the SCOPE and STOP cohorts and has developed algorithms for use as screening tools to predict which women are at risk of developing a major pregnancy complication. She is PI on a NIH NICHD Human Placenta Project study to profile placenta and maternal blood across gestation using next generation sequencing technologies. She has a particular interest in modifiable risk factors for poor health in pregnancy and beyond. She has over 185 refereed publications and has won more than $24million in grant funding.