Theodora Scarato

https://hibr.nih.gov/member/theodora-scarato

She is the Director of the Wireless and Electromagnetic Field Program at the non-profit scientific organization Environmental Health Sciences and previously served as Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust. Theodora Scarato is an environmental health policy expert on wireless and other non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (EMFs) focused on U.S. and international regulations, laws and policies. 

Scarato served as a lead technical expert in a major federal legal case against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in which the agency was ordered to review the evidence it had ignored regarding health and environmental impacts, to ensure U.S. regulations for wireless exposure were adequate.  

Scarato has co-authored several scientific publications on wireless and children’s health and on best practice building strategies to mitigate risk. 

In addition to the favorable ruling in the U.S. lawsuit on wireless limits, highlights of her professional activities over the last decades of her work in non-ionizing electromagnetic fields and health include helping to organize the 2019 EMF medical conference, the first exclusively designed to train medical and professionals. 

Her work was instrumental in the Maryland State Children’s Environmental Health Protection Advisory Council addressing radio frequency in classrooms and issuing guidance on how to reduce EMF.  She has presented at numerous U.S. and international conferences as well as at the National Institutes of Health, the New Hampshire State 5G Commission, the National Spectrum Management Association and the American Public Health Association.