Roy J. Rando, D.Sc.

Dr. Roy Rando holds the B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of New Orleans, and the M.S.P.H. and Sc.D. degrees in environmental health science/industrial hygiene from the Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. He is certified in the chemical aspects of industrial hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. Dr. Rando has been a member of the faculty of Tulane University since 1987 and is currently Vice Chair, Professor, and Academic Director of the ABET-accredited Industrial Hygiene Program in the Department of Global Environmental Health Science in the Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. He is also adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine in the Tulane Medical School. Dr. Rando teaches graduate courses in the topical areas of air sampling and analysis, exposure assessment, physical agents in the workplace, industrial ventilation and chemical hazard control, and occupational health. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene (JOEH). Dr. Rando’s research is focused on assessment and epidemiology of occupational respiratory disease, inhalation toxicology, occupational and environmental inhalation exposure assessment, and industrial hygiene chemistry. Dr. Rando has authored more than 75 manuscripts in the scientific literature. In 2015, Dr. Rando was the inaugural recipient of the Impact Award from the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.