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university programs are listed below by topic. To add a listing to
this page, contact Mary Bryant, RiskWorld
staff, e-mail bryant@tec-com.com. |
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Risk
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Environmental Risks |
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Technological Risks |
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Center for Human
Performance and Risk Analysis
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| A center at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering whose mission is to break the
chains of events that cause accidents. (Posted September
2000.) |
| http://www.engr.wisc.edu/centers/chpra/whatis.html |
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Harvard Center of
Risk Analysis
Harvard University |
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A multidisciplinary group that works to improve decisions about
environmental health both in the United States and internationally, Harvard
Center for Risk Analysis (HCRA) conducts research, provides education, and
encourages public discourse. HCRA focuses on developing well-grounded risk,
economic, and decision analysis methods and on using these methods to inform
real-world decisions. The center's work draws on diverse disciplines
including epidemiology, toxicology, environmental science and engineering,
decision theory, cognitive psychology, applied mathematics, statistics, and
economics. (Posted September
2000; updated November 2006.) |
| http://www.hcra.harvard.edu/ |
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Institute for
Reliability and Risk Analysis
The George Washington University
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Founded in 1981 and located in the School of Engineering
and Applied Science at The
George Washington University, the IRRA seeks to initiate basic and
applied research aimed toward increasing the fundamental knowledge base and
methodology in reliability, quality control, and risk analysis. The
institute focuses on the development of new and modern methodologies, with
an emphasis on implementation, and also emphasizes the development and
application of Bayesian methodology in addressing and solving practical
problems. (Posted February 2000.)
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| http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~irra/index.html |
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Program on Risk and
Systems Analysis
University of California at Los Angles
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University of California at Los Angeles, Center for Clean Technology:
Program on Risk and Systems Analysis for the Control of Toxics (RSACT).
Although the primary funding for RSACT has recently ended, much of the work
outlined on this page is expected to continue under the Center for Environmental Risk
Reduction and/or additional funding. The page is part of the UCLA Center for Clean
Technology Web server. (Posted November 1995.)
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| http://cct.seas.ucla.edu/cct.rs.html |
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Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health |
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institute is
dedicated to the protection of health through education, service, and
research in risk and policy. The institute provides practitioners,
scientists, and decision makers with the tools necessary to ensure that
environmental health policies lead to improved public health. As the
institute's multi-disciplinary academic and continuing education programs
increase awareness of the scientific knowledge underlying risk assessment
and provide a bridge between environmental health science and policy, its
service and research activities improve the science base of risk assessment,
cultivate better risk assessment methods, and enhance the risk management
process by insuring consideration of a broad array of management options for
improving public health |
| http://www.jhsph.edu/Research/Centers/rsppi/ |
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| Environmental Risks |
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Center for
Environmental Risk Reduction
University of California at Los Angles
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University of California at Los Angeles, Center for Clean Technology:
Center for Environmental Risk Reduction. Also known as the Engineering and
Systems Approaches to Risk Reduction (ESARR) program, the center initially
is focusing on the following five major areas: risk reduction strategies,
exposure assessment, toxicology, risk assessment, and risk reduction
technologies. The page is part of the UCLA Center for Clean
Technology Web server. (Posted November 1995.)
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| http://cct.seas.ucla.edu/cct.esarr.html |
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| Technological Risks |
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Center for Technology
Risk Studies
University of Maryland
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A Center for technology risk studies has been established at the
University of Maryland capitalizing on the risk assessment capabilities
which have been developed at the University over the past 15 years. The
Center is being formed to meet the increasing needs of governmental bodies
to assess risks associated with technology and to establish regulations and
procedures which balance those risks against societal benefits. The Center
will focus on integrating and packaging risk analysis tools and techniques
in support of organizations that will be affiliated with the Center.
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| http://www.enre.umd.edu/risk/ctr.htm |
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