David Michaels (epidemiologist)

David Michaels
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health
Incumbent
Assumed office December 8, 2009
President	Barack Obama
Vice President	Joseph Biden
Preceded by	Jordan Barab (acting)
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Born	October 11, 1954 New York, New York
Profession	Epidemiologist

David Michaels is currently the Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). He is a Professor (on leave) in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH) at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Dr. Michaels is the author of Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health (Oxford University Press, 2008). He has written articles for Science, JAMA, Scientific American, the International Journal of Epidemiology, the American Journal of Public Health and other scientific publications.^[1]

Dr. Michaels served as the United States Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health from 1998 through January 2001. In this position, he had primary responsibility for protecting the health and safety of workers, the neighboring communities and the environment surrounding the nation's nuclear weapons facilities. Dr. Michaels developed an initiative to compensate workers in the nuclear weapons complex who developed cancer or lung disease as a result of exposure to radiation, beryllium and other hazards.^[1]

In February 2006, Dr. Michaels received the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award. He has also received the American Public Health Association's David P. Rall Award for Advocacy in Public Health, and the US Department of Energy's Meritorious Service Award.^[1]

Dr. Michaels is the son of journalist Ruth Gruber.

Works

• Michaels, David (2008). Doubt is Their Product: How industry's assault on science threatens your health. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195300673. 

See also

• Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program
• Navajo Nation#Lung cancer

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} David Michaels, PhD, MPH

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Name	Michaels, David
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Date of birth	October 11, 1954
Place of birth	New York, New York
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