Professional Profile
Dr. Jonathan Urban is a Senior Managing Scientist in ToxStrategies’ Health Sciences practice. He is a board-certified toxicologist with more than 15 years’ experience studying and evaluating the potential human health effects and risks associated with personal, occupational, and community-wide exposures to soil, water, and air contaminants, including chemical and petrochemical production activities and criteria air pollutants. He specializes in using evidence-based methods in support of hazard and risk assessment and is involved in the firm’s integration of these methods in the safety assessment development process. He has played an integral role in the firm’s efforts to develop and apply comprehensive systematic review methods for chemical risk assessment, with experience in all aspects of systematic review, including using critical appraisal tools for evaluating studies for risk of bias and external validity, as well as evidence integration. Dr. Urban has utilized this expertise in the development of critiques and recommendations regarding health-based toxicity criteria for both state and federal regulatory agencies, industry, and private-sector stakeholders. Dr. Urban also has extensive experience conducting both screening-level and complex site-specific risk assessments and has developed a comprehensive knowledge base on a variety of regulatory guidance documents on human health risk assessment. This experience has also facilitated work with regulatory agencies and potentially responsible parties on developing site cleanup standards. Additionally, Dr. Urban has experience in the drug development and food safety sectors, providing monitoring oversight for studies in support of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s pre-IND application process for pharmaceuticals and conducting GRAS reviews for food additives, respectively.
Dr. Urban is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology, has published academic and professional studies in the peer-reviewed literature, and is a reviewer for various scientific journals. While earning his Ph.D. in toxicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Urban served as an enlisted communications specialist in the United States Marine Corps Reserves (Communications Company, Greensboro, NC).