by Andrew Maynard | Oct 12, 2014 | Ebola, Health
Over the past several weeks, we’ve been posting articles on the ebola outbreak from University of Michigan experts. As concern continues to grow over the outbreak, we’ve collected these together on the Risk Science Center Ebola Virus Topic Page, and will...
by Andrew Maynard | Oct 5, 2014 | Ebola, Health
The University of Michigan School of Public Health has posted a number of resources on the current ebola outbreak on its website, including a series of interviews with experts on risks and concerns. These are well worth checking out for clear and informed information...
by Andrew Maynard | Sep 27, 2014 | Public Health, Risk
Visualizing risk, NHS style It maybe because I hang out too much in the US these days, but I’ve only just come across this rather excellent Atlas of Risk from the UK National Health Service: Visualizing causes of death The Atlas uses a highly intuitive...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 31, 2014 | Vaccines
Leading up to the new NOVA Special on vaccines (Vaccines – Calling The Shots, airing September 10th, 9:00 PM on PBS), the University of Michigan Risk Science Center be reposting a series of pieces that tackle some of the issues around vaccination, acceptance,...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 25, 2014 | Technology Innovation
Chemistry World posted a good article yesterday on nanotech regulation in Europe (Europe mulls best way to handle nanotech by Andrew Williams). I have a couple of quotes in the piece, along with Risk Science Center colleague Diana Bowman). These are taken from a...
