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Professor Hugh Davies is a faculty member in the School of Population and Public Health within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He holds the rank of Professor and serves as Chair of the MSc/PhD Admissions Committee. Dr. Davies earned his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on human exposure to hazardous chemicals and physical agents in workplace and community settings. He is the Principal Investigator of the Canadian Workplace Exposure Database Project, which compiles approximately half a million occupational exposure measurements from across Canada. Dr. Davies has authored over 85 peer-reviewed publications, with his work cited thousands of times. His current investigations include exposure to hazardous drugs among health care and veterinary workers, the effects of chemical exposures on workers’ hearing, and employee health in overdose prevention sites. He has also examined the non-auditory effects of noise on cardiovascular diseases, adverse birth outcomes, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and childhood learning.

Dr. Davies is a board-certified industrial hygienist (CIH) and a member of the ACGIH Chemical Substances TLV Committee. He previously served as president of the Canadian Association of Research on Work and Health and as Chair of Team 3 for the International Congress on the Biological Effects of Noise. He teaches courses including SPPH 535 – Principles of Occupational & Environmental Hygiene and SPPH 562 – Chemical & Biological Hazard Measurement. Dr. Davies received the Killam Research Fellowship in 2012 and the Killam Teaching Prize in 2021.