Dan Krewski

Dr. Krewski is an Academic Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa, where he is involved in a number of activities in population health risk assessment within the new Institute of Population Health. Dr. Krewski has also served as Adjunct Research Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University since 1984.

Prior to joining the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa in 1998, Dr. Krewski was Director, Risk Management in the Health Protection Branch of Health Canada. Dr. Krewski joined the Health Protection Branch of Health Canada in 1972, and has extensive experience with a wide variety of health protection issues, particularly in relation to food safety and environmental health. While with Health Canada, he also served as Director of the Bureau of Chemical Hazards and as Chief of the Biostatistics Division in the Environmental Health Directorate.

Dr. Krewski obtained his Ph.D. in statistics from Carleton University and subsequently completed an M.H.A. at the University of Ottawa. His professional interests include epidemiology, biostatistics, risk assessment, and risk management. Dr. Krewski is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Society for Risk Analysis. Dr. Krewski has contributed to over 300 publications in the scientific and technical literature, and is author or editor of five books. He is currently an Associate Editor of Risk Analysis, Risk Abstracts, and the Journal of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

Dr. Krewski has been a member of a number of expert panels on health risk assessment, including committees established by the American Health Foundation, the International Life Sciences Institute, the the International Programme on Chemical Safety. From 1992 to 1996, Dr. Krewski served as the Canadian representative on the Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer. He currently serves as a member of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology within the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and has recently been appointed Chair of the Royal Society of Canada's Expert Panel on the Potential Health Risks of Exposure to Radiofrequency Fields from Wireless Telecommunications Devices.