Melvin L. Myers
US Public Health Service Officer
Environmental Protection Agency
USA
Biography
Melvin L. Myers is an engineer who served as a US Public Health Service Officer in the Environmental Protection Agency at its creation and for 10 years thereafter and at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 20 years. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Emory University where he taught Environmental and Occupational Health Policy for 25 years. The class covered occupational safety and health, US environmental health statutes, and international environmental regimes. During 2006-2014, he held the position of Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health as a research engineer at the University of Kentucky where he was a Principle Investigator for an aquacultural safety and health project. He currently holds a courtesy appointment at the University of Florida and is engaged on a seafood worker safety and health project
Research Interest
Medicine and Environmental Health