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On September 26-27, 2019, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis is hosting a workshop on “Risk Assessment, Economic Evaluation, and Decisions.” The workshop will honor John S. Evans, who has been a core member of HCRA since its founding almost 30 years ago. The conference will be held at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and will feature presentation of papers by leading experts.
The workshop aims to support improved public policy decisions, and has two overlapping themes:
(1) Building on the contributions of John S. Evans, and
(2) Addressing issues at the intersection of risk assessment and economics.
Dr. Evans has contributed significantly to risk analysis. His many contributions include addressing uncertainty through assessing the value of information, using structured approaches to elicit expert judgments, and developing approaches for assessing risks in data-limited contexts, such as intake fractions. The second theme is developing innovative approaches for better integrating risk assessment and economics. This theme is inspired by the need to address unresolved issues identified by the 2009 National Research Council report, Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment. Topics include estimating changes in risk associated with benchmark dose and other quantal models to support monetary valuation for benefit-cost analysis; accounting for changes in averting behavior when estimating the health effects of changes in exposures; and characterizing uncertainty and its implications for decision making.
Lead supporter:
Society for Risk Analysis Economics and Benefits Analysis Specialty Group
Additional supporters:
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health
Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment
Harvard University Center for the Environment
Industrial Economics, Incorporated
Paustenbach and Associates
The workshop is open to the public at no charge, however, pre-registration is required due to space limitations.