Special Expert Theodora Scarato

Theodora Scarato MSW

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. 

She is the Director of the Wireless and Electromagnetic Field Program at Environmental Health Sciences and previously served as Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust. 

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

Her recently published paper in Frontiers in Public Health, “U.S. policy on wireless technologies and public health protection: regulatory gaps and proposed reforms” provides a comprehensive analysis of the history of wireless regulation in the United States, identifying significant gaps and systemic shortcomings. The paper highlights that current regulatory frameworks lack both meaningful premarket safety testing and adequate post-market health and compliance surveillance. It advances a set of practical, evidence-based policy recommendations aimed at strengthening public health and environmental protections and ensuring regulatory systems keep pace with rapidly evolving wireless technologies.’

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.  

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 and she also has presented at the subsequent 2021 EMF Medical Conference. 

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

She has worked on wireless and non-ionizing EMF health and environment risks for over a decade.

She can be reached on LinkedIn here, Substack here and ResearchGate here.