Franklin Mirer

His primary scientific interest is exposure and risk assessment in the occupational environment, and regulatory policy. Dr. Mirer was professor of environmental and occupational health at CUNY SPH since 2006. He served as an Industrial Hygienist for the UAW starting in 1975 and retired as director of the UAW Health and Safety Department after 31 years of service. He participated in every round of auto industry bargaining from 1976 until his retirement in 2006. Dr. Mirer received a PhD in organic chemistry from Harvard University in 1972, and trained further as a research fellow in toxicology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He served on the IARC Working Groups for Monographs 115,101 and 77. Previously, he served on the OSHA Metalworking Fluid Standards Advisory Committee the National Academy of Sciences Committees on Institutional Means for Risk Assessment, and Risk Assessment Methodology, and the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Toxicology Program. He developed and delivered testimony before OSHA regarding a dozen health and safety standards, and testified before House and Senate Committees on occupational safety and health and regulatory policy matters including testifying on the OSHA Proposed Silica Standard. He authored peer reviewed scientific papers on exposure assessment, risk assessment and epidemiology. He received the Donald E. Cummings Award from the AIHA and the Herbert P. Stokinger Award from the ACGIH.