Brooke Donovan Simmons, MPH, CIH
Principal Scientist

brooke.simmons@insightrisk.com
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Brooke Simmons is an environmental health scientist and certified industrial hygienist (CIH) with over 15 years of professional experience in industrial hygiene, exposure assessment and human health risk assessment. Her experience includes researching, measuring exposure, reconstructing dose and exposure, and assessing risk to consumers and workers exposed in occupational settings, from consumer products, in the home, and in the environment to a variety of chemicals and agents including asbestos, talc, benzene, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), dioxins, trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), formaldehyde, hexane, cadmium, copper, arsenic, mercury, nickel, lead, silica and mold. She has also evaluated the health risks associated with heat and noise in occupational settings. Ms. Simmons is experienced in determining contaminants of potential interest and designing industrial hygiene sampling protocols for various agents and settings. She has evaluated historical and contemporary compliance with applicable federal and state-level standards and regulations established by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). Further, she has been involved with assisting organizations in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by assisting with strategies to minimize the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

    • Bachelor of Arts – Integrative Biology (UC Berkeley, 2007)

    • Masters in Public Health – Environmental Health Science, Exposure Assessment and Control (UC Berkeley, 2013)

    • Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Comprehensive Practice (CP# 10397), Board for Global EHS Credentialing (2013), Re-certified 2019

    • Exposure Assessment

    • Risk Assessment

    • Total Worker Exposure

    • Exposure Simulation Studies

    • Industrial Hygiene

    • Risk Communication

    • Scientific Literature Reviews

    • EPA TSCA

    • Public Health

    • SOA