Biography

John Mendeloff is the Director of the RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace. He is also a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh with appointments in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Public Health, and the Law School. He has a PhD in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley. He has written numerous books and articles about workplace safety and health and other issues of risk regulation. He has received numerous research grants and has consulted extensively for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as for safety agencies in Ontario, British Columbia, and New Zealand. He has served on panels dealing with workplace safety for the National Academy of Sciences, the Government Accountability Office, and the Office of Technology Assessment. His focus has been how government agencies can better use information in designing and implementing their policies and programs.