Professor David Michaels Profile

David Michaels, PhD, MPH, is an epidemiologist and Professor at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, in Washington DC. He served as US Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health from 2009 to January 2017, the longest serving administrator in OSHA’s history. He was also a member of the Biden Haris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board.

During the Clinton Administration, Dr. Michaels served as US Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety, and Health, charged with protecting the workers, community, and environment around the nation’s nuclear weapons facilities. In that position, he was the chief architect of the historic initiative to compensate nuclear weapons workers who were sickened by radiation, beryllium, and other toxic exposures.