Jeffrey C. May, M.A., CMC (Certified Microbial Consultant), CIAQP (Certified Indoor Air Quality Professional), and Principal Scientist at May Indoor Air Investigations, LLC.
A former educator (Adjunct Faculty, Department of Work Environment, U MA Lowell, Jeff is a building consultant and indoor air quality (IAQ) investigator who over the last 25 years has conducted thousands of investigations of homes, schools, and offices. He has personally examined by microscopy over 40,000 air and dust samples, and has served as an expert witness in cases involving mold and moisture issues.
May has lectured nationally about indoor air quality including at the Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), American Lung Association (ALA), American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI), American Chemical Society (ACS), and Allergy and Asthma Foundation of American (AAFA).
He is also widely published in dozens of articles on indoor air quality and in over six books, and is author of a monthly column in Healthy Indoors magazine and of five more books on IAQ published by Johns Hopkins University Press:
My House is Killing Me, 2001 (Ed. 1) and 2020 (Ed. 2)
The Mold Survival Guide, 2004
My Office is Killing Me, 2006
Jeff May’s Healthy Home Tips, 2008
Jeff is a member of a number of professional organizations including The American Chemical Society, The Indoor Air Quality Association, and the New England Chapter of the Industrial Hygiene Association. He is a former national Board Member of the Allergy and Asthma Foundation of America and is currently on the Board of the Massachusetts Association for the Chemically Injured (MACI) and the Chemical Sensitivity Foundation (CSF). He holds a B.A. from Columbia College (chemistry) and an M.A. from Harvard (organic chemistry).