Health Effects of Cellphone & Cell Tower Radiation: Implications for 5G Webinar

This presentation summarized the research on biologic and health effects from exposure to radio frequency radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers along with the implications of this research for 5G, the fifth generation of cellular technology. The inadequacy of current national and international radio frequency exposure limits to protect environmental and public health was also discussed.

Indicative of the widespread interest in this public health issue, the webinar was attended by 660 people from 40 states and 30 countries. About 20% of attendees were from California and 19% from foreign countries. More than 100 people submitted questions; however, there was only enough time to answer a handful.

Speaker: Joel M. Moskowitz, PhD

Joel M. Moskowitz, PhD, has directed the Center for Family and Community Health in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley since 1993. Dr. Moskowitz has published research on disease prevention for 40 years. In 2009 he served as the senior author on a hallmark paper reviewing research on mobile phone use and tumor risk published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Last year he updated this meta-analysis in a paper published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. This year he co-authored a paper on electrohypersensitivity published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Since 2013 he has translated and disseminated research on the biologic and health effects of wireless radiation through his website (https://saferemr.com). In 2017, with legal representation from the UC Berkeley Environmental Law Clinic, he won a lawsuit against the California Department of Public Health for suppressing its own scientists’ cell phone safety guidance for eight years. This resulted in the Department finally publishing cell phone health warnings. He serves as an advisor to Physicians for Safe Technology and to the International EMF Scientist Appeal which was signed by over 240 scientists who published more than 2,000 papers and letters in professional journals on electromagnetic fields and biology or health.