Michael VÍT

Born on 31 October, 1951

Education:   

1970 - 1976       3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University Prague

Employment:

District Institute of Hygiene in Frýdek-Místek, (Department of  Occupational Medicine)

1977 - 1980       head of Division of Occupational Medicine

1980 - 1990       director and district  hygiene officer of DIH in Frýdek-Místek

1990 - 1998       head of Division of Toxicology, Regional Institute of Hygiene in Ostrava

1998 - 2000       head of Department of Work Hygiene and Occupational Medicine

2000 - present    Chief Public Health Officer of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Health ofthe Czech Republic

                                      External teacher of Institute for Environmental Engineering, Mining and Geological Faculty, Technical University of Ostrava

                                      Consultant of National Institute of Public Health (NIPB), Prague (field – risk assessment)

                                      Facilitator of US EPA courses in Risk Assessment

Scientific societies: 

Member of the Board of Czech Society of Occupational Medicine

Head of Commission for Industrial Toxicology, Czech Medical Association J. E. Purkyně

Member of the Advisory Board of the director of NIPB, Prague (field – immunology)

Scientific and pedagogical qualification:

1980 - Postgraduate Diploma, Grade I (branch – hygiene and epidemiology)

1984 - Postgraduate Diploma, Grade II (branch – work hygiene and occupational diseases)

Risk Assessment Training Course, US EPA, October 1992, Bratislava

Risk Assessment Training Course, US EPA, June 1993, Železná Ruda (source facilitator)

Principles of Environmental Enforcement, Course of US EPA, Novemb. 1994, Horní Bečva

Environmental Economics, Course of US EPA, January 1995, Komorní Lhotka

Chemical Emergency Prevention and Preparedness, Course of US EPA, March 1995, Most

Environmental Policy Course, US EPA, June 1995, Rožnov

International research visits:

TNO Institute, Leiden, the Netherlands, November 1992, 1 week (occupational medicine)

INERIS (Institut National de L´Environment Industrial et des Risques), Verneuilen-Halatte, France, December 5 – 14, 1994 (chemical emergency prevention and application of Seveso Directive)

Training stay in the USA, organized in the framework of the US A. I. D.

Emergency Planning, Safety Management“, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, February 11 – 25, 1995

Research activities: 

Since 1994 principal investigator of 2 IGA MH CR Grants and 2 partial projects of Project Silesia, co-worker of 3 IGA MH CR Grants

Mr. Vít is author and co-author of many publications in the field of hygiene, occupational diseases, risk assessment etc.