David T. Mage
Health Scientist
USEPA and WHO
Newark, Delaware, USA
Biography
I graduated from the NYC High School of Music and Art in 1953 as a Trombone major. I then graduated from Columbia in Chemical Engineering in 1958 and got my PhD in Chemical Engineering from University of Michigan in 1964. I taught Chemical Engineering at San Jose State University in California until 1974 when I joined the U.S. EPA to work on air pollution science. In 1981 I was a Visiting Scholar of Air Pollution at the Harvard School of Public Health where I learned about SIDS, and I have been working on it ever since. I then served with WHO from 1987-1993 as an air pollution expert in KL Malaysia and Geneva when I retired and returned to USEPA. I retired from EPA in 1999 and worked at Temple University on Survey Research until 2006. I now live in Newark, Delaware, with my wife and collaborator on SIDS, Dr. Maria Donner (PhD Genetics, Helsinki) where we still study the age and gender distributions of SIDS. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals.
Research Interest
My current interest is modeling the age distribution and gender distribution of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and validating an X-linkage model for explaining the 50% male excess of SIDS. I have some 130 publications on air quality modeling and SIDS, amongst others, which can be found by going to Google Scholar and searching David Mage