Robert Kavet

Robert (Rob) Kavet (M’10–SM’16) was born in Brooklyn, NY, USA, in October 1944. He received the master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University, in 1967, and in environmental health sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health, in 1972, and the Sc.D. degree in respiratory physiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, in 1977. He has been involved with EMF health and safety issues since first joining the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) as a Project Manager, in 1978. Since 1978, he has been serving for a total of nearly 30 years at EPRI, retiring in 2016 as a Senior Technical Executive. His career at EPRI was committed to managing, designing, and participating in EMF health and safety research spanning the nonionizing spectrum from direct current (DC) through power frequencies to radio frequencies (RF). He is currently with the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, as a Visiting Scientist. He was involved intimately with studies that included the areas of epidemiology, exposure assessment, laboratory studies (in vivo and in vitro), dosimetry, instrumentation, and the development of modeling software. These studies covered key health and safety endpoints including cancer and pregnancy outcome, and the basis for exposure limits as published by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection and IEEE. He has authored or coauthored about 100 peer-reviewed publications concerned with the above-mentioned EMF topics. Dr. Kavet is currently serving as a Co-Chair of subcommittee three of IEEE’s International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety (ICES) concerned with establishing exposure standards for frequencies between 0 and 5 MHz.