Announcing: Analyzing Regulations and Risk Communication

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Harvard School of Public Health Center for Continuing Professional

Education and Harvard Center for Risk Analysis announce the following two

programs to improve your ability to evaluate risk and communication and

environmental, health and safety regulations.


Analyzing Regulations: Health, Safety, and the Environment

May 8-9, 2003

Washington, DC

Hilton Washington & Towers


James K. Hammitt, PhD

Associate Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences

Director, Environmental Science and Risk Management 

Department of Health Policy and Management

Harvard Center for Risk Analysis

Harvard School of Public Health 


George M. Gray, PhD

Acting Director

Center for Risk Analysis

Harvard School of Public Health


Jonathan Wiener

Professor of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy

Duke University


During this program, conveniently held in Washington, DC, you will learn

the principles and practices behind methods used to evaluate

environmental, health, and safety regulations, including benefit-cost,

cost-effectiveness, risk, and life-cycle analysis. The program will also

cover OMB’s newly announced proposal to revise federal guidelines for

regulatory analysis. Harvard Center for Risk Analysis is noted for its

role in promoting the use of benefit-cost, cost-effectiveness, and risk

analysis for government regulation.


For more detailed information or to register

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ccpe/programs/BCA.shtml



Risk Communication Challenge

May 14-16, 2003

Boston, MA


Program Directors: 


George M. Gray, PhD, Acting Director, Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard


School of Public Health 


David P. Ropeik, MS, Director of Risk Communication, Center for Risk


Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health


Ragnar Löfstedt, PhD, Professor and Director of the King's Centre for

Risk Management, King’s College London


Learn how to more effectively communicate about risk issues with various

audiences, and how to incorporate risk communication into the strategic

operation of your organization. A combination of expert instruction,

class participation, and real-world examples of successes and failures in

risk communication will give you an understanding of the theoretical and

practical issues involved.


For more detailed information or to register

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ccpe/programs/RCC.shtml


BENEFITS OF ATTENDING 

The programs are presented in collaboration with the Harvard Center

for Risk Analysis.  Since 1989, a leader in promoting

reasoned public responses to health, safety, and environmental

hazards.  Come to Harvard and learn the most effective

strategies.


FOR MORE INFORMATION

For details and to register, visit

www.hsph.harvard.edu/ccpe

OR

Call 617-384-8692

Email contedu@hsph.harvard.edu

Fax 617-384-8690

Write to Harvard School of Public Health

        

Center for Continuing Professional Education

        

677 Huntington Avenue

        

CCPE  Dept. A

        

Boston, MA 02115-6096


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Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Education and

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