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Disconnect: An Inconvenient Truth About Cell Phones by Devra Davis (pt 1)

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Channel: Silicon Valley Health Institute · 2014 · Science & Technology

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Disconnect: An Inconvenient Truth About Cell Phones by Devra Davis, PhD, MPH - a presentation that took place on February 20, 2014 at Smart Life Forum, Palo Alto, CA.

Devra Davis, PhD, MPH is an award-winning writer and scientist, who received the National Book Award for her first non-fiction book, When Smoke Ran Like Water—which was the subject of several award-winning documentaries by the weather channel, BBC History, and BBC Nova, as well as U.S. public television, WQED Pittsburgh. Her other documentary film work includes: Exposure: environmental links to breast cancer, with winner of the NY Film Festival science documentary award; Journal to Planet Earth with Matt Damon, for PBS, produced by
Marilyn and Hal Weiner; The Idiot Cycle—a French public television documentary with David Servan-Schreiber; and various programs on Dutch, Australian, and Japanese Public Television programs. She also was Founding Director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology at the U.S National Academy of Sciences and the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and a Presidential appointee to the National Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. She is currently President of Environmental Health Trust and Visiting Faculty with the University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy, and guest lecturer at Dartmouth College, Dominican University, University of California, San Francisco and elsewhere.

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http://www.svhi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/SLF_2014Feb20.pdf

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