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2012

February 3    Peter M. Sandman “Classic” Book from 1993

• Responding to Community Outrage: Strategies for Effective Risk Communication   

  Published by the American Industrial Hygiene Association, Fairfax VA, 1993

January 30    New Peter M. Sandman and video and audio files

•   Risk = Hazard + Outrage: A Formula for Effective Risk Communication
  (Note: Link goes to onsite descriptions/links to offsite video and onsite audio files)

  Produced by the American Industrial Hygiene Association, Fairfax VA, 1991

January 29    New Peter M. Sandman and Jody Lanard video and audio files

•   Crisis Communication: Guidelines for Action
  (Note: Link goes to onsite descriptions/links to offsite video and onsite audio files)

  by Peter M. Sandman and Jody Lanard

  Produced by the American Industrial Hygiene Association, Fairfax VA, 2004

January 19    New comment

• Bird flu risk perception: bioterrorist attack, lab accident, natural pandemic

January 18    New comment

• Getting health professionals to take blood-borne disease transmission seriously

January 17    New article

• Flu Vaccination of Healthcare Workers: Two Risk Communication Issues

  by Peter M. Sandman and Jody Lanard

  Comments on draft recommendations of the Healthcare Personnel Influenza Vaccination Subgroup, National Vaccine Program Office, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, submitted January 14, 2012

2011

December 31    New audio file

• Risk = Hazard + Outrage: Risk Communication Briefing for IT Security Professionals
  (Link goes offsite to a page with this MP3 audio file: 62.9MB, 67 min.)

  Presented at the Oracle Chief Security Officer Summit, San Francisco CA, October 4, 2011

December 17    New comments

• Validating the adjustment reaction: “Of course you’re upset….”

  Finding a Ph.D. research topic that tests one of my risk communication “principles”

December 8    New column

• Over-Reassuring Thai Crisis Communication about the Great Flood: When “Restoring Trust” Is Too Much to Expect

  by Jody Lanard and Peter M. Sandman

December 5    New dialogue about August 14 “Explaining and Proclaiming Uncertainty” column

• Response from Germany’s Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)

  by Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel

  Reply to the response

  by Peter M. Sandman and Jody Lanard

November 8    New comment

• Occupy Wall Street messaging – and Wall Street responsiveness

November 5    New Peter M. Sandman in the News

• Flu vaccine efficacy: Time to revise public messages?

  by Robert Roos

  Posted on the website of CIDRAP News (Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, University of Minnesota), November 4, 2011

  Overselling Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Risks Undermining Public Health Credibility

  by Peter M. Sandman and Jody Lanard

  Email to Robert Roos, October 27, 2011

October 27    New Peter M. Sandman in the News

• Flu vaccine not as effective as thought, new study says

  by Lorna Benson

  Broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio, October 25, 2011

October 27    New comment

• Layoffs as a risk communication challenge

October 21    New column

• Advice about Advisory Groups

October 18    New comment

• Financial risk communication, full disclosure, and self-fulfilling prophesies

October 18    Updated list of other sources

• Other Sources, Other Approaches, Other Websites

October 7    New Peter M. Sandman audio files

• Vaccine Risk Communication: Dishonesty Makes Things Worse – Presentation
  (Note: This link launches an MP3 audio file on this site: 45MB, 40 min.)

  Vaccine Risk Communication: Dishonesty Makes Things Worse – Panel Q&A:
  (Note: This link launches an MP3 audio file on this site: 34MB, 29 min.)

  Presented at a conference on “Research Integrity Challenges in Vaccine Development and Distribution for Public Health Emergencies,” sponsored by the Drexel University School of Public Health and the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, September 12, 2011

September 28    New Peter M. Sandman audio file

• Climate Change Risk Communication: Outrage Management, Not Just Precaution Advocacy
  (Note: This link launches an MP3 audio file on this site: 17MB, 48 min.)

  Interview with Peter M. Sandman by Stephen Dubner for Freakonomics Radio, taped on July 25, 2011

September 18    New comment

• Scaring people into getting their flu shot

September 16    New comment

• Getting your organization to use information you have gleaned from public participation exercises

September 12    New comment

• The risk communication in Contagion and Contagion as risk communication

September 4    New comment

• Hurricane Irene risk communication: public service or weather porn?

September 1    New comment

• Getting apathetic or resentful health department people interested in crisis communication

August 21    New comments

• Sarcasm isn’t an effective way to persuade parents to vaccinate their kids

  Figuring out how risky it is to fly your own airplane – the pesky “denominator problem”

August 14    New column

• Explaining and Proclaiming Uncertainty: Risk Communication Lessons from Germany’s Deadly E. coli Outbreak

  by Peter M. Sandman and Jody Lanard

 

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