Michael Bisesi, PhD, REHS, CIH, is currently the Senior Associate Dean and Professor and Chair (interim) of Environmental Health Sciences in the College of Public Health at The Ohio State University (OSU). He recently completed a term as a Senior Scientist for the Centers for Disease Control National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Prior to his appointment at OSU in 2009, he served for 19 years as a scientist, Department Chairman, and Senior Associate Dean at the Medical College of Ohio and the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Health Science Campus. He was also the co-founder and Director of the tri-university Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health. At the beginning of his career, he held positions as an occupational health specialist at Tenneco Chemicals and as an Assistant, and then tenured Associate, Professor of Health and Safety at Indiana State University.
Dr. Bisesi is an Environmental Health Scientist, Board Certified Industrial Hygienist, ABIH Diplomat, AIHA Fellow, and Registered Environmental Health Specialist (inactive, NJ). His primary scientific expertise includes assessment (monitoring) of human exposure to, and control of, toxic chemicals and pathogenic microbes; applied environmental toxicology and microbiology; and hazardous material/emergency incident recognition/response. He is actively engaged in international work via the Ohio State-Eastern Africa One Health project and the OSU Global One Health initiative (GOHi).
Dr. Bisesi has authored/co-authored several journal articles as well as chapters in major reference books, including the Occupational Environment: Its Evaluation and Control (1st and 2nd ed) and also several in Patty’s Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology (4th and 5th ed). In addition, he is author of the highly touted textbooks Industrial Hygiene Evaluation Methods (2nd ed) and co-author of two other volumes of the Handbook of Environmental Health (4th ed) entitled Volume 1 – Biological, Chemical and Physical Agents of Environmentally Related Disease and Volume 2 – Pollutant Interactions in Air, Water and Soil.