MSPH Seminar 14-Oct-09: *Managing uncertain environmental health risks – Pharmaceutical contamination of recycled drinking water

12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 14th Oct 2009
Seminar Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton

Dr Louisa Flander, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic & Analytic Epidemiology, Melbourne School of Population Health

*Note: change of seminar title

It is difficult to generate precise estimates of improbable yet potentially catastrophic environmental risks, such as threats to the nation’s health, water or food supply. So, data for risk estimates are inferred from expert opinions based on poor or no data. We know that expert opinions are subjective and that experts as well as laypersons have cognitive biases which constrain judgments. I will discuss this problem, looking at predicted contaminants in recycled water over the next twenty years in the U.S.

For more details, please view the Event Flyer.

All enquiries to Nora Li, Tel: 03 8344 9350

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