A groundbreaking report out of Harvard University explores who is responsible for the health of NFL players, why, and what ca be done to promote player health. The authors of the report are available for interviews.
A study based on massive amounts of data offers a new way to forecast flight late arrivals and departures and to schedule crews based on expected needs during holiday and other seasonal travel. The new approach could help to cut delays that both frustrate passengers and cost the airlines large sums.
Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting December 11-15, 2016
With massive coastal storms on the rise, a new study describes a method for stakeholders in vulnerable communities to be involved in preparing for, absorbing, recovering and adapting from devastation.
Toxic chemical and other environmental risks that Miami area Hispanics face are higher than those faced by the area’s U.S.-born Hispanic and white residents, but are almost identical to risks faced by the area’s black population.
We know that the elderly are risk averse when it comes to their finances, but until now few studies have looked at how the elderly judge medical treatment risks, an increasingly vital issue.
Assessments that tell policy makers how vulnerable and resilient their communities are to devastating floods and other destructive events aren’t always accurate, according to the first-ever validation of a wide range of available tools.
Effective warnings are a growing need as expanding global populations confront a wide range of hazards, such as a hurricane, wildfire, toxic chemical spill or any other environmental hazard threatens safety.
Well designed and executed emergency warnings can save lives, so risk experts are urging steps to create the most effective warnings for hurricanes, wildfires, and other environmental hazards.
Policy makers’ and public health officials’ proper reactions could hold down the total costs to U.S. GDP of an influenza outbreak. Otherwise, costs could be nearly double previous estimates.
In a digital age when people have many information sources, during a crisis they won’t always seek guidance from the government or other official channels. Why not?
A new pilot study defines an approach that can help EPA and other government regulators decide which among the more than 80,000 chemicals in commerce and the environment, many poorly understood, should receive priority attention.
Risk analysts have gathered new evidence that the public sees a medium-to-high risk that worldwide population growth could lead to food and water shortages, species extinctions, and other disasters, pointing to the likelihood that concerned individuals might support policies to slow the growth.
Food imported into the United States from countries with low GDP poses higher safety risks, suggesting the need for food safety management reforms, according to a new analysis of federal import violations data.
Study explores why some people react altruistically to news about an Ebola outbreak while others do not.
Journalists are invited as guests to find great news leads and meet experts at the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting in Arlington, VA, December 6-10, 2015.
Diving restrictions do not protect divers from injuries, new research suggests.
Although U.S. airlines are extraordinarily safe, they are missing an important opportunity to acquire even more safety-related information because some incidents involving close calls are not probed as evidence of potentially dangerous behavior but instead are seen as proof the system works well, according to a new in-depth risk study.
Mothers who are pregnant or have young children would be expected to be more concerned about protecting their offspring from environmental risks that are reported most in the news, but a new study raises doubts about that conventional wisdom.
Scientists conclude that increasing life jacket wear by only 20 percent would have saved 1,721 out of 3,047 boaters involved in accidents between 2008 and 2011, a finding that could be used to argue for regulations requiring use of the safety devices.
Under-vaccinated communities face heightened risk of measles outbreaks that can spread nationally within a year unless squelched quickly, but a vigorous vaccination response during a 2014 outbreak in North American Amish communities in Ohio prevented widespread transmission, according to a recent study published in the online version of Risk Analysis, a publication of the Society for Risk Analysis.
Counter-terrorism officials working to anticipate where and how terrorists are planning their attacks could gain important insights into terrorists’ judgments by modifying the widely held assumption that terrorists are fully rational actors who seek to maximize tangible goals and instead recognizing that their rationality is limited and that emotional factors of anger and fear could affect their behavior.
Researchers who studied the national and state regulations that are supposed to ensure a reliable electricity system throughout the United States have concluded that important upgrades are needed in the way the reliability of the systems is measured along with new standards to prevent outages.
A new study confirms researchers’ previously limited findings that drivers with impulsive, angry personality characteristics are more likely than other drivers to engage in the kind of belligerent driving that potentially leads to accidents, conclusions that could be used in designing more effective traffic safety publicity campaigns.
Adolescents who have engaged in past risky online behavior such as providing personal information and befriending strangers are much more likely to repeat such behavior in the future, according to new research that suggests risk information should be tailored to different age groups.
Data on terrorist attacks from 1982 to 2011 show a long-term trend away from air attacks and toward railroad and subway attacks, underscoring the need for increased intelligence gathering to intercept those redirected attempts.
Risk researchers find that the public may respond best to severe weather warnings if they include a probability estimate, an important finding not only for the present but also for the longer-term future as climate change brings more frequent and severe threats.
As a stand-alone strategy, dense urban development may reduce regional air pollution such as particulate matter (PM), but such development may also increase PM-related local health problems. In contrast, suburban or “sprawl” development slightly increases regional pollution but may decrease local health effects, risk researchers found.
The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Annual Meeting will be held at the Sheraton Denver, 1550 Court Place, Denver CO, 80202, from December 7-10, 2014. Talks will include scientific and technical presentations on current (and often contentious) topics such as hydraulic fracturing of natural gas, public health and legalized marijuana, and adapting to and managing natural disasters.
Scientists find that on the front range of the Colorado Rockies the highest fire risk factors are from privately owned lands and threaten other privately held land and property.
Scientists speculate that the highest risk factor for a kidney disease common to five Balkan nations is a plant commonly used in various Chinese herbal medicines.
A new laboratory method may improve risk estimates of children's soil exposures.
Accounting for immunity can strengthen disease identification and management.
Only a small fraction of New Jersey residents are willing to pay more to reduce the likelihood of severe damage from future hurricanes that hit the state.
Wastewater used to irrigate farmers' fields may present public health risks to children and others.
Changes in risk perception about hurricanes and nuclear energy also explored in "Risk Analysis."
Society for Risk Analysis Meeting set for Baltimore, MD, December 9-12, 2013, will include sessions on sustainability, Big Data, bioterrorism, nanotechnology, toxics, climate change, food safety and whether regulation kills jobs, among many others.
A survey of Indiana residents tracks public acceptance of potential measures to address climate change in their communities.
New findings suggest that attitudes coming into play about making medical decisions around vaccinating children are shaped by prior cultural values.
Analyzing the maize trade among 217 nations suggests that if U.S. maize exports are disrupted due to environmental or other factors, supplies and food security in many nations could be jeopardized due to the bilateral nature of trade patterns.
Analyzing soil lead in an urban garden plot is important and sampling approaches may involve tradeoffs between finding ‘hotspots’ versus looking at the average amount of lead when checking for safe levels.
New research highlights how teaching kids to identify risks and control their actions can prevent tragedies
U.K. effort to regulate adventure sports reveals different approaches to ensuring safety
Innovative approach to managing tanks improves environmental outcomes, stretches scarce resources.
Society for Risk Analysis Meeting set for San Francisco, CA, December 9-12, 2012, will include speeches by federal homeland security experts and a New York Times environmental blogger.
The mindset that uses the extreme unlikelihood of a catastrophic event as a rationale for not taking measures before a disaster happens, factored into the risk management failures of the Fukushima Tsunami, 9/11 and other such events, but a better approach is available.
A sophisticated study of sea level rise related to global warming shows that flooding and damage to D.C. buildings and infrastructure could be extensive in the next 100 years, particularly during storms.
A risk communication study focuses on perceptions, information seeking and intent in coming to grips with a 13 percent flu vaccination rate among students sampled despite a strong CDC health outreach campaign.
A listing of Hurricane-related news releases and journal articles to serve as resources for reporters.
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