https://www.riskandsocialpolicy.org/about daily 1.0 2024-07-12 https://www.riskandsocialpolicy.org/contact-us daily 0.75 2020-06-05 https://www.riskandsocialpolicy.org/media daily 0.75 2020-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1592586860050-6066NA18TGF6SYRGBUR5/Koebele_vertical.jpg Media - The shutdown means a temporary reprieve for the environment, and maybe some new policies Elizabeth Koebele was interviewed by the Sierra Nevada Ally for an Earth Day 2020 story about COVID-19 and environmental impacts entitled “The shutdown means a temporary reprieve for the environment, and maybe some new policies.” This piece was published on April 27, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1592586565832-C8BOBS2RQKVYZ5QT8IFK/5ea4b8c32500008a2c6b88c0.jpeg Media - America Is Not Set Up For This Rob DeLeo was quoted in a HuffPost piece by Michael Hobbes on coronavirus preparedness entitled “America is Not Set Up for This” The piece was published on April 26, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1592587212940-UWLLNI0OF2073B63G145/yt_1200-vflhSIVnY.png Media - COVID Calls Tom Birkland, Rob DeLeo, and Kristin Taylor appeared on COVID Calls on April 20, 2020. https://www.riskandsocialpolicy.org/meet-the-team daily 0.75 2021-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1606834658794-3LOPN14DESIYR5YWSJNX/lpw.jpg Meet the Team - Laura Wolton Laura Wolton is a lecturer and research assistant at the University of Colorado at Denver. Her research focuses on developing an autocoding method to identify and relate the elements of communication in policy narratives such as socially-constructed characters, frames, and blame. Her research interest areas include air quality policy, citizen and bureaucratic dissent, media coverage of technological disasters, and policy narrative construction. She earned an M.S. in Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is currently a PhD candidate. Her areas of expertise work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: risk communication, crises and disaster policy, and public policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1591547271274-21EOF7BQN94VX9GEMWZK/0871-2-DCrow-2.jpg Meet the Team - Deserai Crow Deserai A. Crow, PhD, is Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver. She researches state and local public policy, including environmental policy and disaster or crisis policy. She also studies communication, stakeholder participation in public policy processes, and the narratives used to influence public policy. She earned her PhD from Duke University and an MPA from the University of Colorado Denver. Her areas of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Crisis and disaster policy Public policy Risk perceptions Risk communication Contact Dr. Crow at: deserai.crow@ucdenver.edu Twitter: @deseraicrow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1591546575250-K8OUEVRA9BJFMVQN2ZGQ/shanahan_liz-1.jpg Meet the Team - Liz Shanahan Elizabeth A. Shanahan, PhD, is a Professor at Montana State University in the Department of Political Science. She is one of the architects of the Narrative Policy Framework, a policy process theory that examines the power of narratives to influence policy decisions and preferences. Her current research focuses on how narrative risk communication shapes cognitions, affective responses and hazard preparation decisions. Shanahan’s passion for understanding the import and influence of narratives on cognition, affect, and decisions grew out of an unusual confluence of different disciplinary studies. Her areas of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Public policy Crises and disaster policy Risk perceptions Risk communication https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1591546981519-RJ753ALQ6WDAD2PO2KWG/danielle_hartigan.jpg Meet the Team - Danielle Blanch Hartigan Danielle Blanch Hartigan, PhD, MPH is Associate Professor of Health Studies in the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at Bentley University. She researches how communication between patients and healthcare providers effects patient perceptions, prevention behaviors, and the overall patient-centered care experience. She has also studied predictors and outcomes of health information-seeking in cancer survivors. She earned a PhD from Northeastern University and an MPH from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Her areas of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Risk communication Risk perception Health behaviors Contact Dr. Blanch Hartigan at: dhartigan@bentley.edu http://www.danielleblanchhartigan.com/ Twitter: @danielleblanch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1591546854470-JK95C1OAPXMNWA9J28KF/cassandra+duarte.jpg Meet the Team - Cassandra Duarte Cassandra Duarte is an internal medicine physician at The University of Colorado. Her research interests are primarily clinical outcomes in patients with renal cell carcinoma. She earned her doctorate of medicine at The Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University and is completing her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Colorado with plans for a Chief Residency in Internal Medicine prior to hematology/oncology fellowship. Her areas of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Health Behaviors Health Disparities Public Health https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1620735583504-FJ2M4OSR60JV4YTGEZIV/Greer+headshot_2.png Meet the Team - Greer Arthur Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1591755547416-74MED0RYWW59RZV1JKOS/KTaylor.JPG Meet the Team - Kristin Taylor Kristin Taylor is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Wayne State University. Her research investigates the policy process, focusing events, policy failure and learning, policy narratives and the politics of hazards and disasters. Dr. Taylor’s current research explores the extent to which different sources of information influence how local governments make decisions. The focus of her research compares how natural disasters and infrastructure failures can initiate policy learning about mitigation and resilience in local government. Her work has been published in Policy Studies Journal, Administration & Society, Review of Policy Research, Risk, Hazard & Crisis in Public Policy, and the Journal or Regional Analysis and Policy. She earned her Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. Her areas of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Crises and disaster policy Public policy Risk perceptions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1591547503600-F3O860LDD7LYGS0PINL1/alex-duarte.jpg Meet the Team - Alex Duarte Alex is entering his second year at the Heller School for Social Policy as a doctoral student pursuing a PhD in Social Policy with a concentration in Behavioral Health. Alex graduated from Bentley University in 2019 and received a dual bachelors degree in public policy and business studies. During his time at Bentley, Alex’s research focused on policy indicators found within the substance abuse policy domain. More specifically, Alex has focused on how opioid overdose rates and lobbying efforts made by the pharmaceutical industry work to affect policymakers attention to the current opioid crisis. Alex also worked at the Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington DC and Project Weber, a Rhode Island-based harm reduction center for male and transgender sex workers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1591546727772-JW91M8M91HJMG8YGWE0Q/Jennifer+D.+Roberts+-+Photo.jpg Meet the Team - Jennifer D. Roberts Dr. Jennifer D.Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. She researches the influence of built and social environments on physical activity and health. Additionally, her scholarship has focused on environmental inequities as related to disparities in health behaviors (e.g., active transit) and outcomes (e.g., obesity). Dr. Roberts earned her Doctor of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her area of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Public health Health behaviors Health disparities jenniferdeniseroberts@gmail.com Twitter @ActiveRoberts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1592585846969-5HBAGPABHD57HXR7GUQ9/Albright.jpg Meet the Team - Elizabeth Albright Elizabeth A. Albright, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. She researches questions of local level resilience and community learning in response to extreme events. Elizabeth is currently working on projects studying response to disasters in various regions across the US. She has published on response to extreme events, perceptions of climate change, the advocacy coalition framework, and stakeholder participation in state-level regulatory processes. Her areas of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Crisis and disaster policy Public policy Risk perceptions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1591546687165-5SRX7V3JVIJRS2QDAO9O/Katie+Dickinson.jpg Meet the Team - Katie Dickinson Dr. Katie Dickinson is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Colorado School of Public Health, and a JPB Environmental Health Fellow. Her interdisciplinary research examines how people perceive and respond to risks, as well as the impacts of policies and programs on health and social outcomes. Past and current projects have addressed problems at the nexus of environmental quality, economic development, and human health, including water and sanitation, household energy and air pollution, and mosquito-borne diseases. Environmental justice is a central focus of her current work. Her areas of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Public health Health behaviors Risk perceptions Systemic racism Email: katherine.dickinson@cuanschutz.edu Twitter: @dickinson_katie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1591547071895-DDZR8EQJKTSVN5M0DFLW/Koebele_vertical.jpg Meet the Team - Elizabeth Koebele Dr. Elizabeth A. Koebele is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She researches environmental policy making and governance processes, with specialties in water management, hazard and disaster policy, and collaborative governance. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder in Environmental Studies. Her areas of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Public Policy Crisis and Disaster Policy Risk Perceptions Contact Dr. Koebele at: ekoebele@unr.edu Twitter: @EAKoebele https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1592322406002-7MXKNT6MVNING5WPX0PK/HM_picture.jpg Meet the Team - Honey Minkowitz Honey is a PhD student at North Carolina State University in the Department of Public Administration. She received her Master of Public Administration from the Rockefeller College at the State University of New York at Albany, Master of Arts in Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education from Michigan State University and Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University. She has worked in local government, higher education and nonprofit organizations. She is also a mediator. Her research interests are in policy learning, particularly the micro to macro linkage, collective action and workplace bullying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1600724095706-MR91M1WLA8QFH3F11883/lbn_headshot.jpg Meet the Team - Lindsay Neuberger Lindsay Neuberger, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Nicholson School of Communication and Media at the University of Central Florida. She researches health campaigns, translational research, and risk communication and has been funded by organizations including the National Space Biomedical Research Institute and the World Health Organization. Her work focuses on persuasion, formative research, information seeking, evaluation, and linguistic analysis and has covered diverse topics from the opioid crisis and breast cancer to risk assessment and environmental concerns. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication from Michigan State University. Her areas of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Risk communication Risk perceptions Health behaviors Contact Dr. Neuberger at lindsay.neuberger@ucf.edu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/7fc071c4-7845-48d3-a905-e76098637ba0/PM+Headshot.jpg Meet the Team - Paige Moore Paige L. Moore is a Doctoral Research and Teaching Assistant in the School of Public and International Affairs at NC State University. Her background as a research professional has focused on examining and identifying innovative solutions to social problems through research, analysis, and practice. Moore's previous work has focused on how U.S. immigration policies disproportionately impact marginalized populations, the significance of cultural intelligence as a resource for effective leadership; the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color and (dis)abled populations experiencing homelessness; and the value of interprofessional teams of social workers and officers in police departments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1594576194948-UF0N1ZMU7VC3I8RW5FQQ/IMG_0309b.jpg Meet the Team - Tom Birkland Tom A. Birkland, PhD, is a Professor at North Carolina State University. His research is in public policy theory in general, and more specifically on the role of focusing events in agenda setting. He has written a number of articles and three books, After Disaster, Lessons of Disaster, and An Introduction to the Policy Process. He earned is Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington, and his B.A. and M.A.., also in political science,, from the University of Oregon and Rutgers University. His areas of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Crisis and disaster policy Policy process theory, including agenda setting and focusing events Risk and public policy News media in the policy process Contact Dr. Birkland at: tabirkla@ncsu.edu tombirkland.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1620735815328-NTU8VD7B53IYOT8RHIAO/meng_li_1.jpg Meet the Team - Meng Li Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1592587553158-37FJT23PG2B9KG3VE7V0/Manli-Picture.JPG Meet the Team - Manli Zhang Manli Zhang is a PhD student, as well as the research and teaching assistant at the School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado, Denver. Her research interests include policy process under risk and uncertainty, risk perception and behaviors, and environmental policy instruments. Prior to enrolling in SPA’s PhD program, Manli worked at the Center for Risk Governance and Emergency Management at Shandong University for nearly four years, and have published 3 articles (2 in English). Manli earned her undergraduate and master degree in public administration at Shandong University, China, and she earned a second MPA degree at Rutgers University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1591625028009-0V6YTXVA577CYPPDCNNG/Deleo_Robert.jpg Meet the Team - Rob A. DeLeo Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec4464f22cd13186530a36f/1591547177986-G6WHBR6MFCIY03IF4W1K/Courtney+Welton-Mitchell.jpg Meet the Team - Courtney Welton-Mitchell Courtney Welton-Mitchell is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Environmental and Occupational Health Department at the Colorado School of Public Health, Anschutz Medical Campus. She is also a Research Associate with the Natural Hazards Center, Institute for Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder. She researches psycho-educational group-based interventions and public health messaging campaigns in disaster and humanitarian settings. Her research includes an emphasis on mental health, gender-based violence, social norms, risk perception and behavior. She earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Denver and is a licensed mental health clinician. Her areas of work in the Risk and Social Policy Working Group include: Public health Mental health Risk communication Risk perceptions Health behaviors Contact Dr. Welton-Mitchell at: Email: Courtney.Welton-Mitchell@cuanschutz.edu Twitter: @CourtneyWM https://www.riskandsocialpolicy.org/our-work daily 0.75 2021-10-12 https://www.riskandsocialpolicy.org/publications daily 0.75 2024-07-26