| Risk University Programs |
| Risk-related 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. |
| Environmental Risks |
| Human Health Risks |
| Risk Analysis |
| Risk Management |
| Technological Risks |
| Environmental Risks |
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Center for
Environmental Risk Reduction |
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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.) |
| http://cct.seas.ucla.edu/cct.esarr.html |
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Center for Risk
Science and Communication (CRSC) University of Michigan School of Public Health |
| CRSC conducts research on the risks to human health from exposure to environmental hazards and serves the public and private sectors by promoting informed decision-making about health risks through the use of analytical methods and effective communication techniques. The center also serves as an independent forum to provide objective analyses and information to a broad range of interested stakeholders. CRSC's inaugural symposium "Calculation to Communication" formally opened the center on September 15-16, 2005. Links to the symposium agenda and video are available on the website. (Posted September 2007.) |
| http://www.sph.umich.edu/riskcenter/index.htm |
| 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 |
| Harvard Center
for
Risk Analysis Harvard University |
| 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 |
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Founded in 1981 and located in the Department of Statistics, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, at the George Washington University, the institute's goal is to initiate basic and applied research aimed toward increasing the fundamental knowledge base and methodology in reliability, quality control, and risk analysis. The institute emphasizes the development and application of Bayesian methodology in addressing and solving practical problems. (Posted April 2000, updated September 2006.) |
| http://www.gwu.edu/~stat/irra/index.html |
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Mary Kay O'Connor
Process Safety Center |
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Established in 1995, the Texas A&M University's Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center focuses on improving safety in the chemical process industry through educational programs that promote safety as second nature to everyone in the industry and through the development of safer processes, equipment, procedures, and management strategies to minimize losses within the processing industry. (Posted April 2003.) |
| http://psc.tamu.edu/ |
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Program on Risk and
Systems Analysis |
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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.) |
| http://cct.seas.ucla.edu/cct.rs.html |
| Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health |
| The 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/ |
| Risk Management |
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Global
Energy Management Institute, |
| The Global Energy Management Institute, in the University of Houston's C. T. Bauer College of Business, prepares the energy industry workers of today while exploring issues that are important to the future of the global energy industry that is located in Houston. The institute uses a multi-disciplinary approach to address the comprehensive needs of the energy industry, from risk and project management to accounting and systems development. In addition to its 5-year energy markets master's degree program, the institute is offering a six-course, two-semester graduate energy risk management certificate program starting in the fall 2002. (Posted August 2002.) |
| http://www.bauer.uh.edu/gemi/ |
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Wharton
Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, |
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Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center's program of basic and applied research promotes effective policies and programs for low-probability events with potentially catastrophic consequences. The Center is especially concerned with natural and technological hazards and with the integration of industrial risk management policies with insurance. It is also concerned with promoting dialogue among industry, government, interest groups and academics through its research and policy publications and through sponsored workshops, roundtables and forums. (Posted September 2001.) |
| http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/risk/ |
| Technological Risks |
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Center for Technology
Risk Studies |
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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. |
| http://www.enre.umd.edu/ctrs/ |
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