After receiving my Ph.D from Berkeley's School of Public Policy, I taught for 8 years at UCSD's Political Science Department, 5 years at SUNY Albany's School of Public Health and 28 years at GSPIA. From 2007-2014 I served as Director of RAND's Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace.
Recent Publications
- Forthcoming: Wayne B. Gray, John Mendeloff. “The Role of Public Policies in Preventing Construction Fatalities,” Regulation and Governance
- John Mendeloff, “Compliance in Occupational Safety and Health” in Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, eds., D. Daniel Sokol and Benjamin van Rooij. Cambridge University Press 2021
- John Mendeloff, “The Distribution of the Costs and Benefits of OSHA Regulation,” in Who Wins, Who Loses: Inequality and the Distribution of Regulatory Impacts, ed. Cary Coglianese. Brookings Press, 2021.
- John Mendeloff, “ OSHA’s Role in Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic,” The Regulatory Review, 11/2/2020, University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Research Interests
- Policy analysis
- Evaluation
- Government regulation of health and safety risks
- Health policy
