The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis

Davis founded the International Breast Cancer Prevention Collaborative Research Group, an organization dedicated to exploring the causes of breast cancer. In addition, she is a Visiting Scientist of the Strang Cornell Cancer Prevention Center of the Rockefeller University and Scientific Advisor to the Women's Environment and Development Organization. Davis is also a Visiting Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at Mt. She served as a visiting professor at University of Missouri in 1983 Municipal Institute, Barcelona, Spain, in 1985 Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, Department of Community Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, in 1988 and Hebrew University, School of Public Health, Unit of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in 1989.Ī member of both the American Colleges of Toxicology and of Epidemiology, Dr.

Beginning in 1982 she was a faculty associate at Johns Hopkins University, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health. and Jean Langer Davis, and was raised in Donora, Pennsylvania and in Pittsburgh, where she graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School.įrom 1970-76 she was assistant professor of sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York. She was born June 7, 1946, in Washington, DC, the daughter of Harry B. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1967. at Johns Hopkins University as a National Cancer Institute post-doctoral fellow. in science studies at the University of Chicago as a Danforth Fellow, and an M.P.H. A former Scholar in Residence at the National Academy of Sciences, she completed her Ph.D. Davis is also a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School.

She is currently the director of the Center for Environmental Oncology of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute the multidisciplinary center includes experts in medicine, basic research, engineering and public policy, who will develop cutting-edge studies to identify the causes of cancer and propose policies to reduce the risks of the disease. Davis's second book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, was published by Basic Books in October 2007. Her book When Smoke Ran Like Water, which begins with the tale of the Donora Smog of 1948, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002. Devra Davis is an American epidemiologist and writer.

The Secret History of the War on Cancer by Devra Davis