Speakers Bureau

1. Origins of Risk Assessment

2. Current challenges to risk assessment

3. Use of risk assessment and international trade disputes

1. Nuclear power risk analysis

2. Security

3. Women in science and engineering

4. Decision making under uncertainty

1. Protecting the Children: Risk Assessment, Risk Management, and Children’s Environmental Health

2. Communicating About Environmental Health Risks: Using Science to Shape Policy

3. Reducing Risks to Our Health and Environment : The Roles of Science and Precaution

4. The Strengths and Limitations of Toxicogenomics for Assessing and Managing Environmental Health Risks

Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox, Jr.
President, Cox Associates
503 Franklin Street
Denver, CO 80218
Phone: 303-388-1778
Fax: 303-388-0609
Email: tcoxdenver@aol.com

1. Using risk analysis to improve risk management decisions

2. Health risk analysis essentials: Causality, inference, and decision-making

3. Why “precautionary” risk management isn’t

4. Uncertainty analysis and data mining for risk analysts

5. Biologically-based cancer risk assessment

6. Limitations of qualitative risk assessment

7. Good intentions vs. good results: The role of quantitative risk assessment

1. Exposure Analysis

2. Decision Making under Uncertainty/Variability

3. Probabilistic Techniques

4. Potential Role of Genomic Information in Regulation

1. Noncancer risk assessment

2. Children’s risk

3. Uncertainty factors

4. New methods in risk assessment

1. Precautionary Principle and/or/vs Risk Assessment

2. The risk of benzene

1. Microbial Risk Assessment: Status and Research Needs

2. Risk Assessment and Bioterrorism

1. Distributional analyses, including variability and uncertainty

2. Differences in susceptibility for toxic effects among people, especially related to young or old age

3 . Replacement of the current system of uncertaity/safety factors for calculating rfd’s, rfc’s, and ADI’s with one based on quantitative targets for human variability and a variety of uncertainties

4 . Quantitative mechanistic modeling of the risks of toxic effecgts including pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics

5. Risk management analyses, focusing on the juxtaposition of expected beneficial and adverse consequences of different policy options

1. Basis for human health risk assessment & its role in health protection regulations

2. Risk communication & public participation in health protection decision-making

3. Legislative & regulatory policy

4. Role of peer review in fostering excellence in the risk sciences & their application in regulations

1. Setting the PM Standard: How Low is Low Enough?

2. Use of Mechanistic Data in Assessing Health Risks

3. Achieving Balance: Scaring the Public vs Informing the Public

4. Diesel Vehicle Emissions and Human Health Risks: Three Decades of Research and Progress

1. Industrial risks (major accident prevention)

2. Integrated risk management

3. Experience in international activities: collaborative research at international level, research activities in Europe related to industrial safety in general

1. Cost Effectiveness in Health and Safety Risks

2. Human Behavior and Traffic Safety

3. Risk Analysis and Sutstainablity

4. Conflicts, the Common Denominator in Health/Safety Programs

5. Risk Analysis: A Philosophers Perspective

1. Perception of Risk

2. Psychology of Risk

3. Perception of Risk Associated With Cigarette Smoking

1. Risk-risk tradeoffs

2. Precautionary principle & regulation in the US and Europe

3. Climate change policy

4. Judicial and executive review of agency risk analysis

5. Other topics in health, safety & environmental regulation