Jose Palma-Oliverira, professor at the University of Lisbon, joins the podcast to talk all things risk communication regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Oliverira discusses the importance of having a trusted communicator and understanding the audience's belief systems, the population's perception of the communicator, the contradiction between individual rationality and global rationality, and much more. Without this understanding, Oliverira notes that the communicator will lose their audience and explains how to avoid this.

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COVID-19 is a Risk Communication Failure. How Do We Avoid This in the Future?

Let’s Talk Risk Podcast is happy to welcome back Ben Trump, a research social scientist at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center to talk about vaccine and booster shot rollout. Ben discusses the everchanging COVID climate including the vaccine for kids from ages 5-eleven, where the pandemic may be headed next, closing the equity gap, improving communication, and everything in between. Disclaimer: Opinions are the speakers' alone, and not representative of the US Government or any state government.

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Where is it Headed Next?

Dr. Seth Guikema discusses complex risk modeling for the University of Michigan’s COVID-19 reopening plan. Seth is a professor in the Department of Industrial Operations Engineering and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan as well as a past SRA president. Seth explains his university's process in developing the reopening plan and the challenges along the way and how this same modeling process can also be used for elementary schools and other institutions. 

How do you apply complex COVID-19 risk model for safe reopening a major university and elementary schools

What does vaccination development look like from a risk-based perspective? Seth Guikema, Ph.D., University of Michigan, talks with Ben Trump, a member of the Army Corps of Engineers, about the complex process of COVID-19 vaccine development. Between accounting for technical science perspectives, considering various forms of regulatory approval, and addressing risk assessment-based challenges, parsing through the process for COVID-19 emergency use vaccination efforts can seem arduous. Disclaimer: Opinions are the speakers' alone, and not representative of the US Government or any state government.

COVID-19 Vaccines from a Risk-Based Perspective

What happens when the power grid fails and resilience is lacking? Seth Guikema, Ph.D., University of Michigan and Mark H. Weir, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, have a timely conversation about the Texas Energy Crisis with Roshi Nateghi, Ph.D., who teaches industrial engineering at Purdue University and particularly focuses on infrastructure sustainability and resilience. They discuss the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) oversight on the bulk power system and what happens when their resilience falls under the jurisdiction of states when it comes to distribution systems. Simple assignment of blame is incorrect and counterproductive, and through risk sciences, can be avoided.

Texas Energy Crisis - Sustainability vs. Resilience, a Risk Perspective

Robyn Wilson, Ph.D., Ohio State University, and Gina Eosco, Ph.D., NOAA, discuss compound hazards and how that impacts the decision making process for individuals and communities when threatened by both extreme weather events and COVID-19. What actions should people take when faced with both evacuation and stay-at-home orders?

Compound Hazards: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Four panelists discuss the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on their research projects in various disciplines of risk analysis.  Panelists: Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Ph.D., Stanford University Khara Grieger, Ph.D., North Carolina State University Mark Borsuk, Ph.D., Duke University Roshanak Nateghi, Ph.D., Purdue University 

COVID-19 Impacts on Risk Research

Robin Cantor, Ph.D., and Dubravka Tosic, Ph.D., Berkeley Research Group, discuss how businesses and non-profits can begin to re-open and regain their customers post-COVID-19. 

Insights into Reopening the Economy

Vicki Bier, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, discusses lessons learned from the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic. 

COVID-19 Pandemic: Is History Doomed to Repeat Itself?

Rae Zimmerman, Ph.D., research professor at NYU Wagner, discusses the new challenges for risk analysts posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, from a NYC perspective. 

New Challenges for Risk Analysis from COVID-19

Sally Wyatt, Ph.D., Maastricht University, and Marie-Valentine Florin, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), discuss direct-to-consumer genetic testing and human genome editing with an overarching theme of risk vs. reward. This episode is hosted by Catherine Wong, University of Luxembourg. 

Emerging Health Technologies: Do The Risks Outweigh The Rewards?

Sarah Vos, PhD, a research analyst at the University of Kentucky, and Jeannette Sutton, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Kentucky, discuss risk communication on social media and the factors that increase the likelihood of a message being shared and re-tweeted.  

Risk Communication on Social Media: Making Your Messages Go Further

Julie Demuth, project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, discusses how individual experiences with extreme weather events, such as tornadoes, impact how we prepare for future events. Demuth's research indicates that people’s risk perceptions are highly influenced by a memorable past tornado experience that contributes to unwelcome thoughts, feelings and disruption, which ultimately increase one’s fear, dread, worry and depression.

Facing Extreme Weather: How do YOU Prepare?

Christine Hassauer, research associate and doctoral candidate at the Technical University of Munich, discusses her work in developing a conceptual framework to describe food safety. 

How Do We Determine If Our Food Is Safe?

Charlotte Heinzlef, PhD student at the University of Avignon and the University of Mons, discusses her research on the concept of resilience in relation to urban floods. Heinzlef aims to develop a holistic methodology to operationalize resilience by redefining its objectives and actions. 

Building Urban Resilience

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