ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank the sponsors of SEAN—the National Science Foundation—and of the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats—the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. Special thanks go to members of the SEAN executive committee, who dedicated time and thought to this project: Mary T. Bassett (co-chair), New York State Department of Health; Robert M. Groves (co-chair), Georgetown University; Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Brandeis University; Mahzarin R. Banaji, Harvard University; Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Janet Currie, Princeton University; Michael Hout, New York University; Maria Carmen Lemos, University of Michigan; Adrian E. Raftery, University of Washington; and Wendy Wood, University of Southern California. We thank as well the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats, the Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS), and the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC).

We extend gratitude to the staff of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in particular to Emily P. Backes, Malvern T. Chiweshe, Chelsea Fowler, Amanda Purcell, Steven Stichter, and Thomas Thornton, who contributed research, editing, and writing assistance. We thank Ron Warnick, who led the communication and dissemination of the project. Thanks are also due to Elizabeth Tilton, who managed the administrative aspects of the project and assisted with report production. From the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, we thank Kirsten Sampson Snyder, who shepherded the report through the review process. We thank as well Rona Briere, Allison Boman, and John C. Hawkins for their skillful editing.

To supplement their own expertise, the authors received input from several external sources, whose willingness to share their perspectives and expertise was essential to this work. We thank Ann Bostrom, University of Washington; Lisa Dilling, University of Colorado; Julie Demuth, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University; Hallie Eakin, Arizona State University; Bill Hallman, Rutgers University; and Susan Joslyn, University of Washington.

We also thank the following individuals for their review of this rapid expert consultation: Bilal M. Ayyub, Center for Technology and Systems Management, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland; Curtis Brown, Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management, College Park, GA; Inez Y. Fung, Department of Earth and Planetary Science and Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California; Julia Hobson Haggerty, Geography/Earth Sciences, Montana State University; Bruno Takahashi, Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Michigan State University

Although the reviewers listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions of this document, nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review of this document was overseen by Alicia L. Carriquiry, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, and Robert A. Moffitt, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. They were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this rapid expert consultation was carried out in accordance with the standards of the National Academies and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content rests entirely with the authors, and this document has been reviewed and approved for release by the National Academies.