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Prof. Dr.
A. J. Swerdlow
Institute of Cancer
Research, UK

Anthony Swerdlow

Anthony Swerdlow was educated in medicine at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. After junior posts in cAlinical medicine, epidemiology and public health in the Oxford region and London, he worked in epidemiology at the University of Glasgow and at the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys before moving to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1987. He has been Professor of Epidemiology at the Institute of Cancer Research since July 2000. His research is in chronic disease epidemiology, mainly on cancer but also on other diseases including type 1 diabetes and CJD. His research interests have for many years included non-ionising radiation and he is currently a member of the NRPB Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation. Dr. Swerdlow is Chairman of the Standing Committee on Epidemiology since 2009 and has been a member of ICNIRP since February 1997.

Commission Members

Dr. M. Feychting
Karolinska Institute
Sweden

Maria Feychting

Maria Feychting is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research is focused on environmental risk factors for chronic diseases, primarily cancer but also neurodegenerative diseases. She has been involved in epidemiologic research on non-ionising radiation since 1987, covering both ELF and RF electromagnetic fields. She has a specific interest in adult and childhood brain tumour aetiology, both environmental and genetic factors, as well as gene-environment interactions. She participates in the work of the WHO EMF programme, as well as other national and international scientific committees. She is scientific secretary of the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority’s independent scientific expert group on electromagnetic fields.

Dr. A. Green
The Queensland
Institute of Medical
Research, Australia

Adele Green

Adèle Green received her medical degree and her PhD  respectively in 1976, 1984 from the University of Queensland, Australia and her MSc in Epidemiology in 1985 from the London School Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK. She is now working as Deputy Director at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia and is a Conjoint Professor at the Australian Centre for International Tropical Health and Nutrition, at the University of Queensland. Dr. Green has served ICNIRP SCI since May 2000.

Other SC Members

Dr. L. Kheifets
University of
Los Angeles, USA

kheifets@ucla.edu

Dr. Leeka Kheifets is a Professor of Epidemiology in the UCLA School of Public Health. Most recently she was Head of the Radiation Studies Program at the World Health Organization. Previously she was a Technical Executive at the Electric Power Research Institute, where she directed a multi–disciplinary electric and magnetic fields (EMF) research program. She taught at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Health Research and Policy. She is widely known for her work in environmental and occupational epidemiology and has numerous publications. Dr. Kheifets serves on international and national committees that provide advice to governments on environmental policy. She is a member of the International Committee of the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority (SSI). She has served on committees for the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. Dr. Kheifets is a member the standing committee on Epidemiology of the ICNIRP and participated in EU EMF-Net reviews. Dr. Kheifets was also a member of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the International Agency for Research on Cancer and World Health Organization Working Groups charged with evaluating potential health effects from EMF exposure. Her research interests include epidemiology of cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as a methodologic research in risk assessment and policy development. Dr. Kheifets has been a member of SCI since March 2002.

Dr. D.A. Savitz
University of North
Carolina, USA

david_savitz@unc.edu

David Savitz received his undergraduate training in Psychology at Brandeis University and a Masters degree in Preventive Medicine at Ohio State University in 1978, and his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health in 1982. He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and moved to the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in 1985. He served as the Carey C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology until the end of 2005. In January 2006, he joined the Mount Sinai School of Medicine as Director of the Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Prevention Institute and the Charles W. Bluhdorn Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine. His teaching is focused on epidemiologic methods and he recently authored a book entitled “Interpreting Epidemiologic Evidence.” He directed 29 doctoral dissertations at the University of North Carolina and 13 masters theses. He has served as Editor at the American Journal of Epidemiology and as a member of the Epidemiology and Disease Control - 1 Study Section of the National Institutes of Health and currently is an Editor at Epidemiology. He was President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research and North American Regional Councilor for the International Epidemiological Association. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2007. His primary research activities and interests are in reproductive, environmental, and cancer epidemiology. Dr. Savitz has served ICNIRP SCI since February 1997.