An Interview with Devra Davis

Devra Davis, a National Book Award finalist for her When Smoke Ran Like Water , has for years broadened both public and academic knowledge through her research into environmental health and chronic disease. Appointed by President Clinton from 1994 to 1999 to the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, she now is an expert advisor to the World Health Organization and a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Her goals include creation of a Center on Environmental Oncology at a major medical institute that in addition to applied research would develop individual, hospital and community-based programs to reduce cancer risk, personal, household- and community-based hazards, and promote the use of safer, less toxic alternatives in homes, schools, factories and communities. Devra Davis originally spoke with The Sierra Club in December 2002, and this interview appears here with their kind permission.

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