Analyzing Risk Principles, Concepts, and Applications 2017

Analyzing Risk Principles, Concepts, and Applications is organized by Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health and would be held during Mar 6 - 9, 2017 at Harvard Longwood Campus - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

This continuing education course explores the principles of risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication, ensuring you can identify, explain, and make decisions about risks to public health. You will learn how risk analysis is done, how it is interpreted, and how it influences regulatory decision-making. This program will provide you with the knowledge and skills to analyze how environmental hazards impact human health.

Conference Highlights :
• Develop and expand capacity with current and emerging methods for quantifying risks
• Evaluate exposure assessment protocols
• Differentiate between key assumptions and uncertainties in non-cancer and cancer dose-response models
• Implement probabilistic methods in uncertainty analysis and risk assessment
• Identify key factors that influence risk perception and communication
• Evaluate alternative approaches for valuation of environmental health risk outcomes
• Understand the role of risk information in benefit-cost analysis and risk management

This program uses case studies, lectures, and small-group work to explore such topics as hazard identification, toxicology and epidemiology in risk analysis, risk perception, risk communication, life-cycle assessment, and the interplay of risk management and the law. You will gain the skills needed to :
• Perform a broader, nuanced risk assessment
• Improve the effectiveness of current risk assessment practices
• Apply these concepts to diverse risk analysis and management issues