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Health Insight: A Consumer’s Guide to Taking Charge of Health Information

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Upcoming Events

  • Attend our new online course, “Benefit-Cost Analysis: Valuing Life and Health,” in September 2020
  • Save the date for the Society for Risk Analysis’ December 2020 conference.
  • Join us for our March 2021 “Environmental Health Risk” professional development program

HCRA Announcements

  • Read “Premature Deaths, Statistical Lives, and the Economic Value of Mortality Risk”
  • Learn about valuing COVID mortality risks
  • Read about the “Future of Risk Management,” including “Efficient Warnings, Not ‘Wolf or Puppy’ Warnings”
  • Explore “The Mercury Question: How to Understand Risk vs. Reward When Eating Fish”
  • Read “Critical Risk Analysis for Our Daily Lives”
  • Explore a series of essays on EPA’s proposal to regulate benefit-cost analysis

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Targeted taxes, school lunch policies benefit low-income populations

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