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Devra Davis was born on June 7, 1946, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. She is the daughter of Harry B. and Jean Langer Davis.
2409 Shady Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15217, United States
Devra Davis attended Taylor Allderdice High School.
4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
In 1967 Devra Davis received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh. In the same year, she obtained a Master of Arts degree from this university.
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States
In 1972 Devra Davis earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Chicago.
Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
In 1982 Devra Davis gained a Master in Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University.
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(This volume is the result of the international workshop e...)
This volume is the result of the international workshop entitled Trends in Cancer Mortality in Industrial Countries held in Carpi Italy Oct 21-22 1989 as part of the International Week of Science promoted by the Collegium Ramazzini and the Ramazzini Institute.
https://www.amazon.com/Mortality-Industrial-Countries-Academy-Sciences/dp/0897666437/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Trends+in+Cancer+Mortality+in+Industrial+Countries&qid=1612261615&s=books&sr=1-1
1990
https://www.amazon.com/Urban-Pollution-Risks-Children-Environmental/dp/1569734275/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Urban+Air+Pollution+Risks+to+Children%3A+A+Global+Environmental+Health+Indicator&qid=1612261862&s=books&sr=1-1
1999
(In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemio...)
In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and Europe from the effects of pollution-and asks why we remain silent. For Davis, the issue is personal: Pollution is what killed many in her family and forced some of the others, survivors of the 1948 smog emergency in Donora, Pennsylvania, to live out their lives with impaired health. She describes that episode and also makes startling revelations about how the deaths from the London smog of 1952 were falsely attributed to influenza; how the oil companies and auto manufacturers fought for decades to keep lead in gasoline, while knowing it caused brain damage; and many other battles. When Smoke Ran Like Water makes a devastating case for change.
https://www.amazon.com/When-Smoke-Like-Water-Environmental/dp/0465015220/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=When+Smoke+Ran+Like+Water%3A+Tales+of+Environmental+Deception+And+the+Battle+Against+Pollution&qid=1612262067&s=books&sr=1-1
2002
(Why has the "War on Cancer" languished, focusing mainly o...)
Why has the "War on Cancer" languished, focusing mainly on finding and treating the disease and downplaying the need to control and combat cancer's basic causes - tobacco, the workplace, radiation, and the general environment? This war has targeted the wrong enemies with the wrong weapons, failing to address well-known cancer causes. As epidemiologist Devra Davis shows in this superbly researched expose, this is no accident. The War on Cancer has followed the commercial interests of industries that generated a host of cancer-causing materials and products. This is the gripping story of a major public health effort diverted and distorted for private gain that is being reclaimed through efforts to green health care and the environment.
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-War-Cancer/dp/0465015689/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Secret+History+of+the+War+on+Cancer&qid=1612262250&s=books&sr=1-1
2007
(Since the invention of radar, cell phone radiation was as...)
Since the invention of radar, cell phone radiation was assumed to be harmless because it wasn't like X-rays. But a sea change is now occurring in the way scientists think about it. The latest research ties this kind of radiation to lowered sperm counts, an increased risk of Alzheimer's, and even cancer. In Disconnect, National Book Award finalist Devra Davis tells the story of the dangers that the cell phone industry is knowingly exposing us-and our children-to in the pursuit of profit. More than five billion cell phones are currently in use, and that number increases every day. Synthesizing the findings and cautionary advice of leading experts in bioelectrical magnetics and neuroscience, Davis explains simple safety measures that no one can afford to ignore.
https://www.amazon.com/Disconnect-Truth-About-Phone-Radiation/dp/0991219902/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Disconnect%3A+The+Truth+About+Cell+Phone+Radiation%2C+What+the+Industry+Has+Done+to+Hide+It%2C+and+How+to+Protect+Your+Family&qid=1612262465&s=books&sr=1-1
2010
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Devra Davis was born on June 7, 1946, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. She is the daughter of Harry B. and Jean Langer Davis.
Devra Davis attended Taylor Allderdice High School. In 1967 she received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh. In the same year, she obtained a Master of Arts degree from this university. In 1972 she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Chicago. In 1982 Davis gained a Master in Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University.
From 1970 to 1976 Devra Davis was an assistant professor of sociology at the Queens College of the City University of New York, a director of Interdisciplinary Studies from 1971 to 1973, and a co-director of the National Science Foundation Project on In-Service Training Institute from 1973 to 1975. In 1985 she was a visiting professor of environmental medicine at the University of Madrid. In 1985 Davis served as a visiting professor at Municipal Institute, Barcelona, Spain. She worked as a visiting professor at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York. She was also a visiting scholar at Hebrew University.
From 1994 to 1999 she served as President Bill Clinton’s appointee to The United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. She was already recognized as an international expert on environmental health factors. From 1994 to 1999 Davis worked as a senior scientist at Strang Cornell Cancer Prevention Center. From 1996 to 1997 she was the Gotteman Distinguished Professor at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University. 2000 to 2004 she served as a visiting professor at H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management (now Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy), Carnegie Mellon University. From 2004 to 2010 she was a professor at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh.
Davis has also authored more than 200 publications in books and journals ranging from the Lancet and Journal of the American Medical Association to Scientific American and the New York Times and has written blogs in Freakonomics, Huffington Post, Physicians for Social Responsibility, MomsRising, Oxford University Press and elsewhere. An award-winning scientist and writer, Davis' work has appeared in more than a dozen languages. She has authored three popular books. She was designated a National Book Award Finalist for When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution (2002). Her most recent book, Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Is Doing to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family, selected by TIME magazine as a top pick in 2010, received the Silver Medal from Nautilus Books for courageous investigation for the paperback edition in 2013, which was identified by Project Censored as "the news that didn’t make the news," and is the subject of multi-media international policy-making attention–including special editions recently released in India and Australia.
Her book The Secret History of the War on Cancer was a top pick by Newsweek that influenced national cancer policy by the Cancer Association of South Africa and is being used at major schools of public health, including Harvard, Emory, and Tulane University. Her book, Disconnect–the truth about cell phone radiation, forms the foundation for policy changes in Canada, Israel, and elsewhere.
(Why has the "War on Cancer" languished, focusing mainly o...)
2007(This volume is the result of the international workshop e...)
1990(In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemio...)
2002(Since the invention of radar, cell phone radiation was as...)
2010Devra Davis founded the International Breast Cancer Prevention Collaborative Research Group, an organization dedicated to exploring the causes of breast cancer. She currently serves on the board of the Breast Cancer Fund and the Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center, the Climate Institute, and the Coalition of Organizations on the Environment and Jewish Life. She started the Baby Safe Project, an awareness movement for pregnant mothers to keep mobile phones away from their wombs, as it is scientifically proven that radiation has an impact on the fetus. Due to the Baby Safe Project, up to 4,500 pregnant women having treatment at the hospital attached to Yale University have been educated about the adverse health effects of radiation on the womb.
Quotations:
"The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain?"
"I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe."
Devra Davis is a member of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, the International Society for Pharmaco-Epidemiology, the Society of Toxicology, the Society of Neuro-Oncology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Toxicology, the American Public Health Association, the Climate Institute, Breast Cancer Prevention Collaborative Research Group, the Kirsty Alley Foundation Coalition of Organizations on the Environment and Jewish Life, Na'amat, Breast Cancer Fund, and the New York Academy of Sciences. She is a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and Collegium Ramazzini.
On October 19, 1975, Devra Davis married Richard D. Morgenstern. They have two children: Aaron, Lea.