Jim Ramsay is currently a certified safety professional and an associate professor and coordinator of the Homeland Security program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. Prior to this assignment, he was a professor of health and safety at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 1995 to 2005, and of safety sciences at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 2005-06..

With undergraduate training in biology, chemistry and German, Dr. Ramsay completed an MA in Business majoring in health services administration from UW Madison in 1988. His doctoral training is in health services research (a combined program in industrial engineering and preventive medicine) with a doctoral minor in research methods and statistics as also at UW Madison.

Dr. Ramsay is the immediate past general chair of the health care section of the National Safety Council Executive Committee and had served on that committee since 1995. He is a charter member of the Academics Practice Specialty within the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), and has served for 4 years and is now the chair of the ASSE Educational Standards. He is also on the Foundation Research and Technology Committees and was the ASSE Academics Practice Specialty Safety Professional of the Year, in 2003. Dr. Ramsay was a co-developer and is currently the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed Journal of Safety, Health and Environmental Research. Dr. Ramsay has recently served on the Professional Safety editorial review board, as an ABET program evaluator and as a scientific reviewer for the CDC, NIOSH and the ASSE Foundation. Dr. Ramsay also earned fellowship status in the Association of Worksite Health Promotion prior to it merging with the American College of Sports Medicine.

Publications and research interests include the relationships between environmental health, air, land, food and water resources and homeland security; the economic evaluation of health care and occupational safety programs, and the integration of environmental health, homeland security and occupational safety and health programs.

Courses taught include law enforcement and security, environmental health, epidemiology, economic evaluation of health and safety programs, safety management, disaster preparedness and response, principles of occupational safety and health, fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene, research methods and statistics.