Human Health Risk Assessment and Management
 
Welcome
Welcome to the on-line version of the "Introduction to Human Health Risk Assessment and Management" seminar taught during the Spring European Week session at the Department of Sciences Humaines, Économie, Gestion, Finance (SEGF) in Paris, France.  (SEGF is a department in the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC), one of the five Grandes Écoles in France.)

Overview of course
The course provides an introduction to human risk assessment from a public health, quantitative, and management perspective.  After completing the course, students are able to conduct a risk assessment, including the calculation of a risk estimate (deterministic and probabilistic), as well as make risk management decisions.   The final project in this couse requires students to employ the knowledge and skills learned in the course to perform a complete risk assessment analysis.  The project includes the use of a freeware software, Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance (SADA), that performs data modeling and risk analysis.

A Brief Description of the Weekly Programme:

Day 1
Introduction and basic definitions
Toxicology (e.g., threshold response, non-threshold response)
Dose response curves and models
Human health risk assessment methodology (NSF)

Day 2
Components of the risk assessment methodology

  • hazard identification
  • exposure evaluation
  • dose-response evaluation
  • risk characterization
    • Quantitative aspects
    Risk management

    Day 3
    Quantitative risk assessment methodologies (probabilistic modeling)
    Criticisms of the risk assessment process
    Risk Assessment Case study

    Day 4
    Spatial assessment of risk
    Introduction to the risk assessment software SADA
    Instructor-guided use of the SADA software
    Student use of the SADA software
    Overview of the Risk Assessment Project

    Day 5
    Risk Assessment Project (an in-class final project)

    Professors
    The instructors for the course are John Bing-Canar, Ph.D., of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Michael Cailas, Ph.D., P.E., of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

    Resources

    Students:
    Students will be provided articles, case studies, electronic files (in PDF format), software, and computer lab facilities (no textbook purchase is required).

    Websites:
    SEGF homepage
    ENPC homepage
    Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance (SADA) homepage

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     Web Authors: John Bing-Canar and Michael Cailas   01 February 2003
    edited:  02 February 2003
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