Understanding Risk Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society (1996) / Chapter Skim
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is dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. He has served on the Public Health Council of Massachusetts, as chair of the Health Care Technology Study Section of the National Center for Health Services Research, as president of the Society for Medical Decision Making, as a consultant to the World Health Organization, and as member or chair of a number of Institute of Medicine panels dealing with topics of health policy.
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Prior to his appointment at Johns Hopkins, he was Deputy Commissioner of Health for the state of New Jersey. He has served as a member of the Council of the Society for Risk Analysis, an adviser to the Office of Technology Assessment on risk assessment of chemical carcinogens and managing nuclear materials, and a member of the National Research Council Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes.
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Previously, he held faculty positions at Southeastern Louisiana University and George Mason University in Virginia. His interests and research have covered adaptations of aquatic animals, especially in coastal waters; the application of scientific information and process to environmental policy and regulation; and, most recently, approaches to ecological risk assessment and chemical threats to human and environmental health, especially from chemicals that interfere with hormonal systems in wildlife and humans.
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He advises clients on scientific issues and regulatory and science policies, specializing in general toxicology, carcinogenesis, reproductive and developmental toxicology, risk assessment, and regulatory policy. Previously, he was Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances at the U.S.
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She is a member of the National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology and president-elect of the Risk Assessment and Policy Association. Author of many articles in biology, risk assessment, and philosophy journals, her three most recent books are Method in Ecology, Burying Uncertainty: Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste and Ethics of Scientific Research.
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He is also a research professor of sociology at George Mason University. He previously staffed several National Research Council committees, including the one that produced Improving Risk Communication.
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She has also worked at the California Department of Health Services and the California Public Health Foundation. Her research has focused on cancer risk assessment, particularly models of exposure.
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