Air Transportation Center of Excellence for Airliner Cabin Environment [ACER]
1. Harvard School of Public Health
John Spengler, PhD, Professor, Principal Investigator
Eileen McNeely, PhD, Instructor
Director, Doctoral Training Program, Occupational Health Services Research and Policy
Donald Milton, MD, Dr.PH, Professor
Julie Bradley, Research Assistant
Harvard University School of Public Health through the Department of Environmental Health has faculty and staff who conduct laboratory and field investigation of the occupational and environmental consequences of contaminant exposures. Professor Spengler has 30 years experience conduction environmental exposure and epidemiology including on commercial aircraft. He has served on both National Research Council committees dealing with health and safety of passengers and crew of commercial aircraft. Dr. Milton, an occupational health physician, is interested in workplace onset of asthma, airborne infection transmission, and bio-defense in indoor environments. Dr. McNeely currently leads several occupational health studies of health care and workers and other occupational groups.

2. University of California Berkeley
Ira Tager, MD, MPH, Professor of Epidemiology, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Professor Tager was a member of the NRC group that prepared the 2002 report that was the stimulus for the current legislation and research initiatives. He has extensive experience in the design and implementation of health surveillance systems and their data management, the design of data collection forms and in the analysis of epidemiologic data. He has a long history of research on the effects of environmental exposures (tobacco smoking and air pollutants) on the human respiratory health and physiology.