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Risk InSight

Society for Risk Analysis

Science

Frequency: 1 episode/61d. Total Eps: 51

Risk InSight (formerly known as Let's Talk Risk) is the official podcast of Risk Analysis, the peer-reviewed journal publishing original research on the assessment and management of risks to human health, safety, and the environment since 1980. Each episode brings the journal's research to life, with conversations spanning quantitative and qualitative approaches to risk across public health, engineering, environmental science, social science, and policy. Whether you're a practitioner, researcher, or simply risk-curious, Risk Insight turns rigorous science into accessible, thought-provoking discussion. Risk Analysis is published by Wiley on behalf of the Society for Risk Analysis.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - Social Sciences
11/09/2026
#87
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10/09/2026
#69
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09/09/2026
#46
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18/08/2026
#87
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17/08/2026
#61
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16/08/2026
#48
🇨🇦 Canada - Social Sciences
28/06/2026
#92
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27/06/2026
#79
🇨🇦 Canada - Social Sciences
26/06/2026
#60
🇨🇦 Canada - Social Sciences
25/06/2026
#34

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When Culverts Fail: A Case Study of Infrastructure Resilience in Rural Massachussets

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 • Duration 28:35

What happens when a small piece of infrastructure fails? Researchers from UMass Amherst and an engineering firm discuss their study on culvert failures in the Deerfield Watershed and why these often-invisible structures matter far more than we realize. They model what happens when culverts fail during floods and hazardous events, and the results reveal how rural communities can suddenly lose access to essential services like hospitals and schools. They also explore why infrastructure investment now prevents harm later, and what policymakers and communities need to know about aging infrastructure in an era of climate uncertainty. Listen to learn how resilience lives in networks, not individual components, and what you can do to advocate for infrastructure investment in your own community.

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Density, Not DUI | What's Really Driving Spring Break Traffic Crashes

Friday, July 24, 2026 • Duration 23:37

Most people assume the holidays are the deadliest time to drive. The data says otherwise.

In this episode of Risk InSight, host Anya Grondalski talks with Professor Michael French, PhD (University of Miami), and Gulchin Gomez, PhD (Florida Atlantic University) about their new study on traffic crashes during spring break across the entire state of Florida, not just the hotspot counties. Using 12 years of crash-level data, they compare spring break to the Thanksgiving-to-New Year's stretch and find spring break comes out more dangerous for non-fatal injuries, and alcohol isn't the main driver.

The conversation covers why out-of-state drivers, young drivers, and pedestrians face sharply elevated risk and the role road density and construction zones play. French and Gomez also share what's actually working on the ground in Miami Beach, from staggered university calendars to parking rate hikes, and where they'd take this research next if better data on distracted driving existed. Listen Now!

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How We Can Keep Biotech in Check with Dr. Kate Sixt of USDA

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 • Duration 10:26

What happens when cutting-edge biotechnology meets artificial intelligence, and who's responsible for governing it?

Kate Sixt, Executive Director of the Office of the Chief Scientist at the USDA and former Principal Director for Biotechnology at the Department of Defense, breaks down why biological data is uniquely personal, why governance frameworks need to balance promotion with protection, and how diverse perspectives are essential to navigating biotech's biggest risks and opportunities. Listen now to this exciting episode interviewing one of the world's leading experts in biotechnology governance!

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What's in Your Water?

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 • Duration 09:15

Every time you turn on the tap, you're trusting a complex system to keep you safe — but what happens when that system faces threats we're still learning to understand? In this episode of Let's Talk Risk, host Anya Grondalski speaks with three researchers on the front lines of drinking water safety.

In this episode of Let's Talk Risk, Dr. Alexis Morass of The College of New Jersey breaks down Legionnaires' disease — a waterborne pneumonia with a fatality rate that dwarfs COVID-19's peak — and shares findings from a nationwide study examining how different disinfection strategies affect disease rates across U.S. water utilities. She explains why temperature, geography, and funding gaps make this research as urgent as it is complicated.

Then, research assistant Emily Julian and Dr. Jade Mitchell of Michigan State University introduce a new risk-ranking framework designed to help water utilities prioritize emerging contaminants that aren't yet on their radar through chemical properties and decision analytics to focus resources where the risk is greatest.

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The Case for Honest PFAS Communication

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 • Duration 22:04

"Forever chemicals" have been in headlines for years, but are people actually getting the information they need to protect themselves? In this episode, we sit down with Lyn van Swol, professor in the Department of Communication Arts at UW-Madison, and graduate researcher Rachel Hutchins, co-authors of a newly published study in the journal Risk Analysis. They analyzed the top 98 websites Americans visit when searching for PFAS information in drinking water.

We dig into why government and public health communicators tend to downplay severity and what messaging frames actually motivate people to act. Listen now!

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Words that work: talking climate change with the public

Thursday, April 9, 2026 • Duration 12:02

When we think about communicating risk, we often focus on the evidence: the data, the models, the science. But what if the words we choose to frame that risk are just as important as the risk itself?

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Wändi Bruine de Bruin, a leading researcher in risk perception and behavioral science at the University of Southern California's Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service, to explore what the science really says about communicating climate risk to the public.

In this conversation, Dr. Bruine de Bruin shares findings from two recent studies on climate risk messaging: what works, what doesn't, and why reaching across political divides might be more possible than you'd expect — if you get the words right. Listen now!

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Inside the Supply Chain Trust Game

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 • Duration 09:04

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Zachary Collier, assistant professor at Radford University and longtime member of the Society for Risk Analysis, to explore a hidden but increasingly urgent problem in global supply chains: intellectual property theft through overproduction. Drawing on his research in semiconductor supply chains, Dr. Collier explains how designers and manufacturers navigate trust, incentives, and risk with millions of dollars on the line.

He breaks down how game theory helps illuminate the strategic decisions each party faces, why overproduction is so difficult to detect, and how approaches like split manufacturing can reduce vulnerability.

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With Access Interrupted, How Do We Rebuild?

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 • Duration 25:58

When disaster strikes, how do we rebuild...and do we do it differently? The answer might start with something simpler than we think: listening to the people already living with risk.

In this episode, we chat with Ben Raschnock, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University, whose work sits at the intersection of civil engineering, operations research, and real-world decision-making.

Ben studies how disasters don't just destroy things. They cut people off from what they need most. Floodwaters block roads. Power outages shutter grocery stores. A preferred doctor becomes unreachable. His research reframes community resilience through one powerful lens: access to essential services.

We also dive into the bigger picture of aging infrastructure, climate surprises that break models, and why the most valuable data in disaster research might already exist in the community conversations.

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Crowdsourcing the Federal Institutional Comeback

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 • Duration 13:17

Two veteran risk analysts reflect on how scientists, academics, and federal employees (both former and current) are planning for the day agencies can be rebuilt. Adam Finkel, professor at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health and former head of regulation at OSHA, and Vicki Bier, retired faculty from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, make the case that the worst thing reformers could do is simply restore the status quo. After decades of regulatory running on autopilot, a once-in-a-generation disruption may be the opening we've been waiting for.

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When AI Meets Biology: The Race Between Innovation and Oversight

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 • Duration 09:51

Biotechnology is advancing faster than ever before, and the stakes have never been higher. In this episode, Dr. Christopher Cummings, lead for the Center for Health Engineering with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, breaks down why the convergence of biotech and artificial intelligence is creating both unprecedented opportunities and existential risks.

From gene-edited foods that could revolutionize agriculture to AI-designed viruses that could destabilize nations, Dr. Cummings explores the delicate balance between innovation and oversight. He reveals why traditional regulatory frameworks are struggling to keep pace and how "information hazards" are forcing scientists to rethink transparency itself.

We dive into the ethical minefield of black-boxed AI systems, designing biological solutions, the growing trust gap between lab and consumer, and what it means when AI can "de-skill" biotechnology to the point where expertise is no longer required to create dangerous organisms.

Topics covered: CRISPR and gene editing, AI convergence, biosafety and bioweapons, public trust in GMOs, generational attitudes toward biotech, risk communication, international cooperation, and the future of governance in an accelerating technological landscape.

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