RISK newsletter:
Congressional Briefing Update

Source: The Society for Risk Analysis' RISK newsletter, Second Quarter 1995

The SRA-sponsored series of breakfast briefings on risk assessment for U.S. congressional staff ended with two briefings in March, which followed three briefings held in January and February (see RISK newsletter, First Quarter 1995).

On March 17, SRA member John F. Ahearne of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, and former Society president James D. Wilson of Monsanto Company (who is now with Resources for the Future; see page 12) addressed regulatory peer review.

On March 31, SRA Councilor Caron Chess of Rutgers University's Center for Environmental Communication and Lawrence E. Susskind of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Urban Studies and Policy and of Consensus Building Institute Inc. spoke on risk communication, focusing on priority-setting and public participation.

SRA President M. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, who chaired the series' Management Committee, says there are no plans to schedule additional briefings in this series, but that the Society will assess its impact and will consider similar activities for the future.

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