A VISITING epidemiologist and toxicologist will lecture about the biological impacts of mobile phones and wireless devices in NSW and Victoria in November 2015.
Dr Devra Davis, Visiting Professor of Medicine at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, and Visiting Professor of Medicine at Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey will give two public lectures about the current knowledge regarding the impact of mobile phones and wireless devices on biological systems. The first will be on 18 November, at the UNSW Kensington Campus, while the second will be on 30 November at the University of Melbourne’s Parkville Campus in Victoria.
In the lectures, Dr Davis will outline the evolution of the mobile phone and smartphone, provide a background to the current radiation safety standards, policy developments and international legislation.
She will also cover new global studies on the health consequences of mobile phone and wireless radiation, and look into recent policy changes, such as the new legislation in California which requires mobile phone retailers to fully disclose the radiation levels of their phones, and ways in which to reduce exposure.
Dr Davis will close the lectures with information on how to mitigate the risks of exposure.
Dr Davis is an internationally recognised expert on electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones and other wireless transmitting devices. Dr Davis was Founding Director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute — the first institute of its kind in the world, to examine the environmental factors that contribute to the majority of cases of cancer.
As the former Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, she has counseled leading officials in the United States, United Nations, European Environment Agency, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization, and World Bank.