About Environmental Health Trust (EHT)
WHO WE ARE
Environmental Health Trust (EHT) is a think tank that promotes a healthier environment through research, education, and policy.
We are the only nonprofit organization in the world that carries out cutting edge research on environmental health hazards and also works directly with communities, health and education professionals, and policymakers to understand and mitigate these hazards.
OUR VISION
A thriving world where technology is both state-of-the-art and safe for all.
OUR MISSION
To safeguard human health and the environment by empowering people with state-of-the-art information.
OUR APPROACH
RESEARCH
- We work with world-class experts to conduct cutting-edge research that can help inform improved safety standards for sources of pollution, including devices that emit microwave radiation
- We publish articles in peer reviewed journals about controllable environmental health hazards
EDUCATION
- We develop science-based multimedia tools to educate individuals, families, health and education professionals, and communities about public health threats
- We put forward solutions for safer use of technology in homes, schools, and public spaces
POLICY
- We work with decision-makers at local, state, national, and international levels to develop and promote sound public health policies based on peer-reviewed research and input from experts
- We research, document, and summarize worldwide policies to raise awareness of environmental risks among policymakers and the general public
EHT is led by Dr. Devra Davis, PhD,. MPH, an award-winning, internationally renowned scientist who also was the founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. Currently, EHT focuses on raising awareness on the established impacts of cell phone use on public health and performing cutting edge research on exposure to cell phone and other wireless radiation.
Past multi-media projects include: local and national campaigns to ban smoking and asbestos, exploring what factors lie behind puzzlingly high rates of fibroid tumors, breast cancer and endometriosis in young African American women, and building environmental wellness programs in Wyoming and Pennsylvania to address the environmental impacts of energy development, the built environment and radon.
Environmental Health Trust was created with the goal of promoting health and preventing disease one person, one community and one nation at a time. Capitalizing on growing public interest in Devra Davis’ popular books, When Smoke Ran Like Water, a National Book Award Finalist, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, and Disconnect—the truth about cellphone radiation, what industry has done to hide it and how to protect your family, EHT is creating trans media platforms that provide clear, science-based information to prevent environmentally based disease and promote health. We work with businesses, universities, and schools at all levels, to create entertaining and informative materials on cellphone risks and ways to reduce them.
Dr. Davis testifies to US Congress on cell phone radiation in 2009.
EHT founder Dr. Herberman testifies to US Congress in 2008.
Read publications by EHT and EHT advisors here.
Dr. Davis worked on climate change before the issue was popular and was part of the IPPC team recieving the Nobel peace prize because she was a lead author of the IPCC. See her at the Earth Day rally in 2000.
In 2007 Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside the large team of scientists who were part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Devra Lee Davis PhD, MPH, was part of the IPCC team as of the lead authors on their assessment of climate mitigation policies (1999-2005).
“In 1997, for instance, shortly before the UN’s Kyoto Protocol Climate Conference, she was working as a consultant to the World Health Organization. The conference, she realized, could help raise awareness of the potential health dangers of fossil fuels. Correlating the amount of coal soot in the air with bronchitis and early deaths, she and about 30 colleagues estimated that there were 700,000 avoidable deaths annually. They predicted that, if coal fuel continued at current levels, the death toll would rise to about 8 million by 2020. She was a lead author on the paper, published in Lancet and distributed at the Kyoto conference, where Vice President Al Gore became aware of it. The paper ultimately ended up in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report for which Gore and thousands of scientists, including Davis, received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.”
- University of Chicago Magazine, 2010, “From asbestos to cell phones, Devra Lee Davis warns of potential public-health crises.”
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment of Climate Mitigation Policies Coordinating Lead Authors: Jean-Charles Hourcade (France), Priyadarshi Shukla (India) Lead Authors: Luis Cifuentes (Chile), Devra Davis (USA), Jae Edmonds (USA), Brian Fisher (Australia), Emeric Fortin (France), Alexander Golub (Russian Federation), Olav Hohmeyer (Germany), Alan Krupnick (USA), Snorre Kverndokk (Norway), Richard Loulou (Canada), Richard Richels (USA), Hector Segenovic (Argentina), Kenji Yamaji (Japan) Contributing Authors: Christoph Boehringer (Germany), Knut Einar Rosendahl (Norway), John Reilly (USA), Kirsten Halsnæs (Denmark), Ferenc Toth (Germany), ZhongXiang Zhang (Netherlands) Review Editors: Lorents Lorentsen (Norway), Oyvind Christopherson (Norway), Mordechai Shechter (Israel) Read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment of Climate Mitigation Policies Online
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of knowledge in climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic impacts. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change work is shared among three Working Groups (1. Physical Scientific Aspects, 2. Consequences and Vulnerability of Socio-economic and Natural Systems, 3. Mitigation) a Task Force and a Task Group. Read More.
Davis, Devra Lee and Working Group on Public Health and Fossil-Fuel Combustion. “Short-term improvements in public health from global-climate policies on fossil-fuel combustion: an interim report.” The Lancet 350.9088 (1997): 1341-9. Presented to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto, 1997.
PUBLICATIONS
Davis DL, Miller V, and Reisa JJ. “Potential Public Health Consequences of Global Climate Change, Preparing for Climate Change.” Proceedings of the First North American Conference on Preparing for Climate Change: a Cooperative Approach, Washington, D.C., Government Institute (1988): 366-376.
Davis DL, Krupnick A, and McGlynn G, Eds. Proceedings of the Workshop on Estimating the Ancillary Benefits and Costs of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policies, March 27-29, 2000. OECD. 2000, November.
Cifuentes, Luis, Devra Davis, et al. “Hidden health benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation.” Science 293.5533 (2001): 1257-1259.
Bell ML, et al. “International expert workshop on the analysis of the economic and public health impacts of air pollution: workshop summary.” Environ Health Perspect 110.11 (2002): 1163-8.
Bell, Michelle L., Devra Davis, et al. “Ancillary human health benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation.”Environmental Health 7.41 (2008).