Dr. Myers has been studying environmental determinants of health in New Mexico since 1994. He received the Los Alamos Achievement Award for his research to enhanced risk-based decision making for ecological risk assessment. He has been at UNM since 2000 had has been the lead biostatistician on NIH-funded research that investigates childhood obesity prevention; gene-environment interactions involving arsenic, UV exposure and melanoma; and research on air quality and child health in Quito, Ecuador and El Paso, Texas. He has been involved with the Miners Colfax Medical Center Black Lung data since 2007.