HCRA: Prior Year Seminar Schedule
2006-2007
Monday, September 18, 2006Maureen L. Cropper, University of Maryland
Traffic Fatalities and Economic Growth in Developed and Developing Nations
Monday, October 16, 2006
Adam M. Finkel, School of Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, and Princeton University
Worst Things Last? The Irrelevance of Risk Analysis in Occupational Health and Safety Policy
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Scott Grosse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Valuing Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children
Monday, November 20, 2006
Robert Mendelsohn and Nicholas Muller, Yale University
Towards Efficient Air Pollution Policy in the United States
Monday, December 18, 2006
Mark A.R. Kleiman, University of California, Los Angeles and Schelling Visiting Professor, University of Maryland
The Dynamics of Deterrence
Monday, January 8, 2007
John D. Sterman, MIT Sloan School of Management
Understanding Public Complacency about Climate Change: Exploring Mental Models of Complex Dynamic Systems
Friday, February 16, 2007
Anna Alberini, University of Maryland
Paying for Permanence: Public Preferences for Life-Saving from Contaminated Site Cleanup
Monday, March 5, 2007
Elsie M. Sunderland, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Global Cycling of Mercury in the Atmosphere and Oceans: Implications for Exposure in the United States
Monday, March 19, 2007
Elen Stokes, University of Manchester Law School
Managing Potential Risks associated with Nanotechnologies
Monday, April 9, 2007
Melvin E. Andersen, Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences
Pharmacokinetic Modeling and Interpretation of Biomonitoring Results
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie-Mellon University
Managing Risk Communications
2005 - 2006
Friday, September 23, 2005A. David Paltiel, Division of Health Policy and Administration, Yale School of Public Health
The Clinical and Preventive Value of Expanded HIV Screening in the United States
Friday, October 14, 2005
Sumeeta Srinivasan, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Integrating Land Use, Transportation and the Environment: The Challenges of Modeling Urbanization and Its Effects in Urban China and India
Friday, November 18, 2005
Eugene Litvak, Health Policy Institute, Boston University
Managing Variability in Patient Flow is the Key to Improving Access to Care, Nursing Staffing, Quality of Care, and Reducing Its Cost
Friday, December 9, 2005
Sendhil Mullainathan, Department of Economics, Harvard University
The Psychology of Development Policy Design
Friday, February 24, 2006
James Stahl, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital
Examining the Role of Technology using Simulation
Friday, March 10, 2006
John Wong, Clinical Decision Making, Department of Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center
Meta-analysis in Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Applications and Future Directions
Friday, April 7, 2006
Lorenz R. Rhomberg, Ph.D., Gradient Corporation
Time to (Pseudo-) Steady-State as a Key Consideration in Extrapolating Acute Inhalation Toxicity to Different Durations and Concentrations
Friday, May 5, 2006
Kimberly Thompson, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University
Using Risk Analysis and Decision Science Tools to Inform Decisions in the Polio End Game
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Glenn W. Suter II, Science Advisor, USEPA, National Ctr for Environmental Assessment-Cincinnati
Causation in Ecological Epidemiology
2004 - 2005
Monday, September 20, 2004Nicholas Treich, Institut National de Recherches Agronomiques (INRA), University of Toulouse
Regulation in Happyville
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
David Laibson, Department of Economics, Harvard University
The grasshopper and the ant: separate neural systems value immediate and delayed rewards
Friday, November 12, 2004
Christian Gollier, Institut d'Economie Industrielle, University of Toulouse
Optimal illusions and decisions under risk
Monday, December 13, 2004
James Smith, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Your Money or Your Life: A Prescriptive Model for Health, Safety, and Consumption Decisions
Monday, January 10, 2005
Carolyn Rutter, The Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative
Likelihood-based Calibration for Microsimulation Models
Monday, February 14, 2005
Jenny Rudolph, Department of Health Services, Boston University
Diagnostic Sensemaking in Operating Room Crises: Exploration and Exploitation in Action
Monday, March 7, 2005
Rachel Elliott, UK Harkness Fellow in Health Policy, University of Manchester
CEACs, CEAFs and COX-2s: NICE or nasty?
Monday, March 28, 2005
Paul Slovic, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon
Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feeling: An Examination of Affect, Reason, Risk and Rationality
Monday, April 18, 2005
Dennis Fryback, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bayesian estimation of quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) in a community population
Monday, April 25, 2005
Kavi Bhalla, Bell Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
The rise and fall of road traffic fatalities worldwide
Monday, May 23, 2005
Daniel Gilbert, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Affective forecasting
