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Chairman

Prof. Dr. A. Ahlbom
Karolinska Institutet,
Sweden

anders.ahlbom@imm.ki.se

Anders Ahlbom is a Professor of Epidemiology, Head of the Division of Epidemiology and deputy director of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Main research interests are environmental epidemiology with an emphasis on cancer, in particular non-ionizing radiation and cancer. He has a longstanding interest in cardiovascular diseases and their relation to the interaction of environmental factors and biomedical risk factors. His work spans epidemiologic theory and methods, including the basis for causal inference. Dr. Ahlbom is chairman of the ICNIRP Standing Committee on Epidemiology and has been an ICNIRP member since 1995.

Commission Member

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

a.swerdlow@icr.ac.uk

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 has been a member of ICNIRP since February 1997.

Other SC Members

Dr. L. Kheifets
University of Los Angeles, California, USA

kheifets@ucla.edu

Leeka Kheifets is a professor of Epidemiology in UCLA’s 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–disciAplinary 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. Dr. Kheifets serves on international and national committees that provide advice to governments on environmental policy. 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 was also a member of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the International Agency for Research on Cancer Working Groups charged with evaluating potential health effects from EMF exposure. Her research interests include epidemiology of cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, as well as a methodologic research in risk assessment and policy development. Dr. Kheifets has been a member of SCI since March 2002.

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

adeleg@qimr.edu.au

Adèle Green received her medical degree and her PhD A   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.

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

david_savitz@unc.edu

David Savitz received a Masters degree in Preventive Medicine at Ohio State University in 1978. He worked as a researcher for two years at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio prior to completing the doctoral program in Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. After 4 years as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, he moved  in 1985 to the University of North Carolina School of Public Health where he has been promoted as Full Professor in 1993. In 1996 he became Chair of the Department of Epidemiology. He also is a Fellow of the Carolina Population Center and a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He served as Editor at the American Journal of Epidemiology and is now an Editor for Epidemiology. He is President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (2000-2001) and currently serves as the North American Regional ACouncilor for the International Epidemiological Association. His primary research activities and interests are in reproductive and environmental epidemiology. Completed projects have addressed electromagnetic fields in relation to childhood and adult cancers, pesticides and reproductive health outcomes, and occupational influences on pregnancy. Current work on reproductive issues focuses on identifying the causes of preterm birth. Dr. Savitz has served ICNIRP SCI since February 1997.