John Howard (public health administrator)
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| Education | MD, Loyola University; Master of Occupational Health, Harvard; JD, UCLA; Master of Laws, George Washington University |
| Years active | 2002-2008, 2009-Present |
| Known for | Director of NIOSH |
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| Profession | Physician, professor, public health administrator |
| Institutions | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, California Occupational Safety and Health Administration, University of California, Irvine |
| Specialism | Public Health |
John Howard is a physician, professor, and public health administrator. He served a 6-year term as the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and was appointed to be a special coordinator to respond to the health effects of the September 11 attacks. In this role, Howard advocated for rescue workers, introducing a program to provide screening, medical exams, and treatment for them. In 2009, Howard was again appointed as director of NIOSH and as World Trade Center Programs coordinator for HHS.
John Howard received a doctor of medicine degree from Loyola University in 1974 (cum laude). To this he added a Master of Occupational Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1982. In 1986, Dr. Howard earned a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Master of Laws in Administrative Law and Economic Regulation from The George Washington University in 1987. In addition, Dr. Howard is a board-certified occupational physician and has written numerous papers on occupational health law and policy.
Dr. Howard began his career in occupational health in 1979 as an internist at the UCLA School of Medicine pulmonary fellowship program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His clinical work involved asbestos-exposed shipyard workers, and he published research findings related to workplace exposure and occupational lung disease. He served as a medical director and chief clinician at the Philip Mandelker AIDS Prevention Clinic.
He also worked as an assistant professor of environmental and occupational medicine at the University of California, Irvine.
John Howard served as the chief of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health in California's Department of Industrial Relations beginning in 1991. There he administered a staff of nearly 1,000 and all the state's occupational and public safety programs. Through his administration of the division, Howard bolstered his reputation in the field as a passionate and able leader. He received praise for successfully implementing a controversial statewide ergonomic standard. He served in this capacity for more than a decade.
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