Devra Davis

Dr. Devra Davis is founder of Environmental Health Trust, a scientific think tank that publishes research and educates policymakers and the public on environmental health hazards. Davis was Founding Director, Center for Environmental Oncology and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. Davis was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health...See more

Dr. Devra Davis is founder of Environmental Health Trust, a scientific think tank that publishes research and educates policymakers and the public on environmental health hazards. Davis was Founding Director, Center for Environmental Oncology and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. Davis was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services and appointed to the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board by President Clinton. She served on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the U.S. National Toxicology Program and various advisory committees to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She was part of the team of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientists awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with the Honorable Al Gore as she was lead author on research assessing climate mitigation policies. Davis has held a number of academic posts, including Gottesman Distinguished Visiting Professor, Yeshiva University; Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Visiting Professor of Medicine, Hadassah Medical School, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine NYC; Ondokuz Mayis Medical School, Samsun, Turkey; and Visiting Professor, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. She is also a fellow in the American College of Epidemiology and an elected fellow in the Collegium Ramazani and International Public Health Honorary Society.A leader of President Clinton's National Action Plan on Breast Cancer, she lectures at numerous universities and academies of sciences and medicine around the world as well as at Harvard, Yale, the University of California, and other global institutions and has advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, World Bank, United Nations Development Program, and others. Featured on CNN, ABC, FOX, CBC, CCTV and major networks in Australia, India, England, and Europe, she and her husband live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Washington, DC. See less