Join the Australasian College of Toxicology & Risk Assessment (ACTRA) in a unique webinar series that commenced in June 2020! The webinar series will cover two overarching themes in relation to toxicology and risk assessment in Australia:

1. Lessons learnt from case studies.
2. Practical applications of theoretical concepts.

These sessions will provide you with an opportunity to gain insight from Australia’s most accomplished and experienced toxicologists and risk assessors, and more importantly encourage an open forum for questions and discussion.

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UPCOMING WEBINAR:

Date: 7^th August, 2025
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Topic: “How to progress your membership to the next level”
Speaker: Effi Liden MAppSc Tox (RMIT) BSc (Melb), DABT 

This session will provide you with an opportunity to gain insight from the membership officer on how to maximise a successful application. The session will also encourage an open forum for questions.

Introduction to the membership registration scheme

This webinar will provide details of the membership registration scheme.  This webinar is for you if you are thinking of updating your membership to a RACTRA or FACTRA or you need to renew your registration.

Discussion Points:

• Introduction to the membership registration scheme
• Why you should be a member of ACTRA
• Benefits of upgrading your membership status
• Requirements for registration
• The points scheme
• Common errors
• Re-registration process

About the Presenter – Effi Liden

Effi is a certified toxicologist and the Registrar and Membership Officer of ACTRA.

She is a Director in the Health Assessment Team at the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA), with responsibility for assessing the human health and safety aspects of applications for approval of pesticides and veterinary medicines, registration, approval of permits to use pesticides/vet medicines for a specific purpose or the review of an existing chemical product and its uses.

She is a technical specialist with over 20 years’ experience in hazardous materials, human health risk assessment and risk communication, in both public and private sectors, with a background in chemistry, toxicology, regulatory toxicology, environmental public health, policy and emergency management. She has supported the development of state and national health policies. She was the Victorian state representative on the Advisory Committee for Chemical Scheduling (ACCS) and Joint Advisory Committees on Medicines and Chemical Scheduling (ACMS-ACCS). She also chaired the Expert Reference Panel for Environmental Health (ERPEH), a subcommittee under enHealth and the Australian Health Protection Committee (AHPC). She has taught university Masters students in the field of environmental health, toxicology and risk assessment.

 

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PAST WEBINARS

Recordings of each of the webinars listed below can be purchased via the following link:
PURCHASE PAST WEBINARS

Pro tip: Please take note of the number of the webinar which you would like to purchase from the list below (1-30). This will make the purchase process much easier.

The Fees for purchasing past webinars are:
ACTRA Members: $30 per webinar
Non members: $60 per webinar

WEBINAR DETAILS

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #43
Date: Thursday 3rd July 2025
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Topic: “Introduction to Practical Toxicology”
Speaker: Tarah Hagen

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #42
Date: Thursday 8th May 2025
Time: 1:00PM – 2:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Topic: “The Safe Dose Range of PFOS”
Speaker: Michael Dourson

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #41
Date: Thursday 3rd April 2025
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Topic: “Using environmental data for a human health and ecological risk assessment: what do the numbers actually mean?”
Speaker: Therese Manning

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #40
Date: Thursday 6th March 2025
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Topic: Introduction To Ototoxicity and Vestibular Toxicity
Speaker: Dr Rhian Cope

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #39
Topic: Introduction to Toxic Optic Neuropathy
Date: Thursday 6th February 2025
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presentation by Dr Rhian Cope

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #38
Short Term Exposure Limit for Respirable Crystalline Silica
Date: Thursday 5th December 2024
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presentation by Tarah Hagen

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #37
Exploring Metal Toxicity: Case Studies in Environmental Health Risk Assessments
Date: Thursday 7th November 2024
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presentation by John Frangos

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #36
Date: Thursday 3rd October 2024
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Australian Total Diet Study by Keith Henderson

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #35
“Human Health Assessment of Pesticide Food and Feed Metabolites – 2^nd Session”
Date: Thursday 1st August 2024
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Rhian Cope

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #34
Topic: “Human Health Assessment of Pesticide Food and Feed Metabolites”
Date: Thursday 4th July 2024
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Rhian Cope

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #33
Topic: “Comments on FDA/CVM guidance for industry #159 (VICH GL36): Studies to Evaluate the Safety of Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Human Food: General Approach to Establish a Microbiological ADI”
Date: Thursday 2nd May 2024
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Silvia Pineiro 

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #32
Topic: “enHealth Guidance for the human health risk assessment of volatile chlorinated hydrocarbon vapour intrusion”
Date: Thursday 4th April 2024
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Ian Delaere

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #31
Topic: “What currently keeps the OECD Test Guideline Programme busy?”
Date: Thursday 7th March 2024
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Anne Gourmelon

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #30
Topic: “Human health exposure from legacy gold mining sites using bioaccessibility, bioavailability and speciation”
Date: Thursday 2nd November 2023
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Farzana Kastury

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #29
Topic: ‘The new wave synthetic opioid abuse, trends, trafficking, and the road ahead for public health professionals’
Date: Thursday 5th October 2023
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Paul Newell

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #28
Topic: “Guess who’s back – or maybe they never left?”
Date: Thursday 6th July 2023
4:00PM – 5:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Dr Carolyn Brumley (FACTRA)

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #27
Topic: “Health effects associated with aircraft cabin air quality (“aerotoxic syndrome”)”
Date: Thursday 4th May 2023
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Adjunct Professor Brian G. Priestly

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #26
Topic: “Risk communication for PFAS – Learnings from community events for high profile sites”
Date: Thursday 2nd March 2023
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Ruth Jarman (RACTRA)

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #25
Topic: “WA Guidelines and the Assessment of Asbestos Contaminated Sites” 
Date: Thursday 2nd February 2023
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Pierina Otness

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #24
Topic: “Outdoor air pollution and cancer“
Date: Thursday 1st December 2022
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: John Frangos

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #23
Topic: “So many issues, so little time: the lost art of risk ranking”
Date: Thursday 20th October 2022
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Victor Kabay

All Recordings from 2022 ACTRA ASM & CE Day
24-26 August 2022
Crowne Plaza Melbourne
Exposure Science and New Assessment Methods (NAMs)
Enhancing Risk Assessment

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #22
Topic: Ecological Risk Assessment Approaches
Date: Thursday 7th July 2022
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Katie Richardson

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #21
Topic: Human Health Risk Assessment Approaches
Date: Thursday 2nd June 2022
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Katie Richardson

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #20
Topic: Human Health Screening Approaches
Date: Thursday 5th May 2022
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Katie Richardson

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #19
Topic: Exposure Science tools and case studies (Session 2)
Date: Thursday 7 April 2022
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Dr Len Turczynowicz

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #18
Topic: An introduction to Exposure Science (Session 1)
Date: Thursday 3 March 2022
Time: 3:00PM – 4:00PM AEDT (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Dr Len Turczynowicz

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #17
Topic: Risk assessment – Remember, Exposure is Important!
Thursday 4 November, 2021
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Dr Jackie Wright

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #16
Topic: The Chicken, the Egg and the Holy Grail – Serum PFAS Levels Following Access to Cholestyramine, Plasma Donation or a Combination of Cholestyramine and Plasma Donation
Thursday 7 October, 2021
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Dr Ian Delaere

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #15
Topic: Risk assessment of emerging contaminants – Theory and Practice
Thursday 9 September, 2021
3:00PM – 4:00PM AEST (Melb/Syd time)
Presenter: Victora Lazenby

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #14
Topic:  An Introduction to Biomarkers of Lower Urinary Tract Toxicity Plus Case Study
Thursday 5 August, 2021
Presenter: Dr Rhian Cope

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #13
Topic: An Introduction to Biomarkers of Renal Toxicity Part 1
Thursday 1 July, 2021
Presenter: Dr Rhian Cope

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #12
Topic:  An Introduction to Biomarkers of Hepatotoxicity Part 2
Thursday 3 June, 2021
Presenter: Dr Rhian Cope

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #11
Topic: An Introduction to Biomarkers of Hepatotoxicity Part 1
Thursday 6 May, 2021
Presenter: Dr Rhian Cope

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #10
Topic: Bioavailability – Case studies and worked examples
Thursday 8 April, 2021
Presenter: John Frangos

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #9
Topic: Key concepts of Bioavailability
Thursday 4 March, 2021
Presenter: John Frangos

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #8
Topic: Dose Response Assessment within standard setting and HHRA
Thursday 4 February, 2021
Presenter: John Frangos

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #7
Topic: Application of TTC in Risk Assessment
Thursday 3 December, 2020
Presenter: Roger Drew

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #6
Topic: History and Derivation of TTC Values
Thursday 5 November, 2020
Presenter: Roger Drew

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #5
Topic: Aspects of Risk Communication
Thursday 1 October, 2020
Presenter: Dr Peter N Di Marco

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #4
Topic: Principles of Human Health Risk Assessment
Thursday 3 September, 2020
Presenter: John Frangos

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #3
Topic: Environmental regulation and guidance
Thursday 6 August, 2020
Presenter: Professor Brian Priestly

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #2
Topic: Product based regulation
Thursday 9 July, 2020
Presenter: Professor Brian Priestly

ACTRA Webinar Series with Q&A – Session #1
Topic: Substance and/or process-based regulation
Thursday 11 June, 2020
Presenter: Professor Brian Priestly

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