Terms of Reference and Membership of the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones

Terms of reference:

"To consider present concerns about the possible health effects from the use of mobile phones, base stations and transmitters, to conduct a rigorous assessment of existing research and to give advice based on the present state of knowledge. To make recommendations of further work that should be carried out to improve the basis for sound advice".

Chairman:

Professor Sir William Stewart FRS, Chairman, Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust, Dundee

Members:

Professor C Blakemore FRS, neurophysiologist, University of Oxford
Professor L Challis, physicist, University of Nottingham
Professor D Coggan, environmental epidemiologist, MRC
Professor Sir David Cox FRS, statistician and epidemiologist, University of Oxford
Mr J Fellows, student, lay member
Dr M Repacholi, experimental scientist, Head of the WHO EMF Programme
Professor M Rugg, risk perception, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor A Swerdlow, epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Mr T Varma, neurosurgeon, Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool

Observers:

Dr A Baddeley, University of Bristol and NRPB
Dr H Walker, Department of Health
Mr G Worsley, DTI