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Eula Bingham, PhD: Former Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health, US Department of Labor.

Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Labor. Eula Bingham, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Environmental Health and former Vice President and University Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Cincinnati, served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health and Administrator of the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from 1977 to 1981 in the Administration of President Jimmy Carter. Dr. Bingham is a preeminent advocate for worker safety and health. She is widely admired as having been one the most humane and effective OSHA Administrators ever to have served in the more than forty years since OSHA’s founding in 1971. Dr. Bingham is a native of Kentucky. She earned a B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from Eastern Kentucky University in 1951 an M.S. in Physiology from the University of Cincinnati in 1954 and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Cincinnati in 1958. Dr. Bingham began her scientific career at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine in 1961 with pioneering research on chemical carcinogenesis. She studied polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in coke ovens. She published a major paper on bladder cancer in chemical workers that she had researched in her own city of Cincinnati. These studies led Dr. Bingham to the realization that American workers are exposed daily in their work to known and suspect chemical carcinogens often under poorly controlled conditions that pose grave dangers to their health. This recognition spurred her to a lifetime of public service on behalf of workers. Beginning in the early 1970s, Dr. Bingham recognized that the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the then new legislation that had passed in 1970 and created NIOSH and OSHA, opened up powerful new opportunities to protect workers against carcinogens and other toxic chemicals. In 1973, she served on a Department of Labor Standards Advisory Committee on Carcinogens whose purpose was to recommend controls to prevent workplace cancer. She went Department of Preventive Medicine, Children’s Environmental Health Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York Correspondence to: Philip J. Landrigan MD, MSc, FAAP, Department of Preventive Medicine, Professor of Pediatrics, Children’s Environmental Health Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box1057, New York, NY100296574. E-mail: phil.landrigan@mssm.edu