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Work Phone Number:
(310) 825-6950
Work Email Address: kheifets@ucla.edu
Education: Ph.D., ,
U.C. Berkeley
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Major Discipline:
Epidemiology and Statistics
Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
Major Research Interest:
Environmental and occupational epidemiology, epidemiologic methodology, methodologic issues in capturing environmental exposure, public health policy development, non-Ionizing (static, extremely low frequency and radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposures) and ionizing radiation, epidemiology of chronic diseases including cancer (particularly breast, leukemia and brain), cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease.
Current Research Interest:
International health, use of epidemiology for evidence-based health policy, applications of precautionary principle, experimental and non-experimental inference, 60 Hz EMF exposure and childhood leukemia, mobile cell phone and base station health effects, mitigation of, preparedness for, and response to the natural occurrence, accidental release, or the deliberate use of radiation.
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Greenland Sander, Kheifets Leeka Designs and analyses for exploring the relationship of magnetic fields
to childhood leukaemia: a pilot project for the Danish National Birth
Cohort..
Scandinavian journal of public health.
2009; 37(1):
83-92.
Divan Hozefa A, Kheifets Leeka, Obel Carsten, Olsen Jørn Prenatal and postnatal exposure to cell phone use and behavioral
problems in children..
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.).
2008; 19(4):
523-9.
Kheifets Leeka, Olsen Jørn Should epidemiologists always publish their results? Yes, almost
always..
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.).
2008; 19(4):
532-3.
Kheifets Leeka, Monroe Jason, Vergara Ximena, Mezei Gabor, Afifi Abdelmonem A Occupational electromagnetic fields and leukemia and brain cancer: an
update to two meta-analyses..
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine / American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
2008; 50(6):
677-88.
Mezei Gabor, Gadallah May, Kheifets Leeka Residential magnetic field exposure and childhood brain cancer: a
meta-analysis..
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.).
2008; 19(3):
424-30.
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Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES
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Work Email Address: kheifets@ucla.edu
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