Project Team

DANIEL KREWSKI, PHD, MHA

Daniel Krewski is currently a Professor of Medicine and a Professor of Epidemiology and Community Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Krewski directs the program and activities of the McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment. Dr. Krewski has also served as adjunct 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, he was Director of Risk Management in the Health Protection Branch of Health Canada. While at Health Canada, he also served as Acting Director of the Bureau of Chemical Hazards and chief of the Biostatistics Division in the Environmental Health Directorate. Dr. Krewski is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Society for Risk Analysis. He currently serves as a member of the US National Academy of Sciences' Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, and as chair of the Academy's Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Highly Hazardous Substances.

Selected Publications:

Krewski D Burnett R, Goldberg MS, Hoover K, Siemiatycki J, Jerrett M, Abrahamowicz M, White WH. Overview of the re-analysis of the Harvard Six-cities study and American Cancer Society study of particulate air pollution and mortality. J Toxicol Env Health (In Press)

Krewski D Lubin JH, Zielinski JM, Alavanja M, Catalan VS, Field RW, Letourneau EG, Lynch CF, Lyon JL, Sandler DP, Schoenberg JB, Steck DJ, Stolwijk JA, Weinberg C, Wilcox HB. A combined analysis of North American case-control studies of residential radon and lung cancer: An Update. Radiation Research. (In Press)

Krewski D Fung K, Smythe R. Optimal experimental designs for estimating the benchmark dose in developmental toxicity experiments. Risk Analysis 2002; 22(6):1195

Krewski D Lubin JH, Samet JM, Hopke PK, James AC, Brand KP. Projection of residential radon lung cancer risks: The BEIR VI Risk Models. Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2002; 102(4):371-373.

Krewski D Balbus J, Butler-Jones D, Haas C, Isaac-Renton J, Roberts K, Sinclair M. Managing health risks from drinking water: A report to the Walkerton Inquiry. J Toxicol Env Health 2002; 65:1635-1823.

Cohen JT, Carlson G, Charnley G, Coggon D, Delzell E, Graham JD, Greim H, Krewski D Medinsky M, Monson R, Paustenbach D, Petersen B, Rappaport S, Rhomberg L, Ryan PB, Thompson K. A comprehensive evaluation of the potential health risks associated with occupational and environmental exposure to styrene. J Toxicol Environ Health B Crit Rev 2002;5(1-2):1-265.

Krewski D Brand KP, Burnett RT, Zielinski JM. Simplicity versus complexity in the development of risk models for dose-response assessment. HERA 2002; 8:6

Bakshi KS, Krewski D. Acute Exposure Guidelines for Selected Airborne Chemicals. Inhal Tox 2001; 13(Supp.1):1-144.

Band PR, Le ND, Fang R, Astrakianakis G, Bert J, Keefe A, Krewski D. Cohort cancer incidence among pulp and paper mill workers in British Columbia. Scand J Work Environ Health 2001 27(2):113-9.

Krewski D Byus CV, Glickman BW, Lotz WG, Mandeville R, McBride ML, Prato FS, Weaver DF. (Eds) “Potential health risks of radiofrequency fields from wireless telecommunication devices”. In: J Toxicol Env Health, Part B 2001; 4:1-143.