PROTEUS

              

 

 Tim Sly, School of Occupational & Public Health,  Yates School of Graduate Studies,

and the Chang School of continuing education, supporting students and practitioners in

research methods, health sciences, epidemiology, and health risk analysis

Last edited:  15-04-2018                      

 

 COURSE SUPPORT...

 

  [Chang School]   

    CVEH 233 How Safe is our Food? [CLOSED]

    CKHS 100 Res. Methods. for international MDs (OPEN)

 

  [Undergraduate]

  ENH 122  Intro Epidemiology (wks 1-3 only) [CLOSED]

   ENH 440 SPECIAL Biostatistics F/14  [CLOSED] 

   ENH 522 Epidemiol: Research Methods [CLOSED]   

  ENH 825  Assess & Communication of Risk [CLOSED]

  ENH 825  2018 solutions for probabilistic risk analysis (OPEN)

  ENH 825  2017 solutions to quantitative risk analysis (OPEN)

  ENH 825  2017 Risk perception & communication pages (OPEN)

            

   [Graduate]

   NC 8108  Epidemiol (Nutrit.) [CLOSED ]  

   ES 8927 Environ. Risk Assessm [CLOSED] 

 NON-COURSE-SPECIFIC / UTILITIES  

 

     Downloading, installing and using Epi-Info

     Style guide for research and report writing

     And how it involves YOU

    Calculator Information

    Information about this site and its author

 

UNIVERSITY BULLETINS & INFO

 

Official EMAIL POLICY  The University procedure now requires that any official or formal electronic communications FROM ALL students be sent using their official Ryerson E-mail account"  The existing procedure already provides for all official University letters, results, and other formal communications to be sent TO students using only their official @ryerson.ca account.

  

    

       Q&A   

The following is a selection of my responses to questions on the QUORA forum and other commentary sites and blogs  

PLEASE NOTE: THIS SECTION IS BEING CONSTRUCTED.  SOME LINKS ARE NOT YET COMPLETE

 

Expiration dates, judgement and inspection of food

Foodborne Illnesses: where are the real risks?

Are infectious diseases something to be forgotten now?

Raw and organic Foods......  

Bacterial resistance threat

BSE: Mad cow disease and human risk in Canada

*  Vaccination and autism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Books on Risk Assessment & Risk Perception/Communication

Note: some of these are downloadable complete with full text!

Garrick BJ, and Gekler WC, (eds.)

The Analysis, Communication, and Perception of Risk. Plenum. New York. 1989. ISBN 0-306-43833-X  

Foster KR, Bernstein DE and Huber PW. Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law. MIT Press. Cambr., Mass. 1994. ISBN 0-262-06156-2
Aldrich T and Griffith J. Environmental Epidemiology and Risk Assessment. Van Nostrand Reinhold. New York. 1993 ISBN 0-442-00885-6
Hallenbeck WH. Quantitative Risk Assessment for Environmental and Occupational Health. Lewis. Boca Raton. 1993. ISBN 0-87371-801-1
Harrison K, and Hoberg G. Risk, Science, and Politics.   McGill-Queens. Montreal & Kingston. 1994.  ISBN 0-7735-1236-5
Bates DV. Environmental Health Risks and Public Policy. UBC Press. Vancouver. 1994. ISBN 0-7748-0506-4
Bennett P, Calman K. Risk Communication and Public Health. Oxford Univ Press. Oxford. 1999.  ISBN 0-19-263037-7
National Research Council. Improving Risk Communication. Natl Acad Press, Washington DC. 1989.  IBSN 0-309-03943-6 (full text available on-line)
Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society  Natl Acad Press; Washington DC. 1996. (Full-text available on-line)
Issues in Risk Assessment National Academy Press; Washington DC.  1993. (Full text available on-line)
Wilde GJS.  Target Risk  Queen's Univ Press. Kingston, Ontario, Canada) 1994. (Full text available on-line)
Building Consensus Through Risk Assessment and Management of the Department of Energy's Environmental Remediation Program  Natl Acad Press. 1994. Washington DC.   (Full text available on-line)
Shrader-Frechette, KS.  Burying Uncertainty: Risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste.  Univ. of Calif Press. Berkeley. 1993   ISBN 0-520-08301-6 

 

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