David Ropeik
Harvard School of Public Health
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He is co-author of RISK, A Practical Guide for Deciding What’s Dangerous and What’s Safe in the World Around You, published by Houghton Mifflin in 2002. He is creator and director of the program “Improving Media Coverage of Risk”, a training program for journalists. He is a regular commentator on risk issues for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition program. He has written OpEd pieces and articles on risk, risk perception and risk communication for; The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Parade Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Boston Globe, and several other publications. He co-authored an essay on risk perception and risk communication with Paul Slovic for the 2003 edition of Global Agenda, the magazine of the World Economic Forum. He has been cited on issues of risk perception in: The Economist, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Focus (the German newsmagazine) and many other newspapers and magazines worldwide. He has been interviewed on risk perception by ABC “Nightline”, National Public Radio, NBC “Dateline”, ABC “20/20”, Fox News, CNN, CNN International, BBC, CBC, CNBC, Voice of America, and dozens of regional radio stations nationwide. He has lectured on and taught risk communication at: The Office of the White House Communications Director, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The National Academy of Sciences, The Federal Aviation Administration, The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), The EPA, The University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Hospital Authority, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, Harvard University, Yale University, MIT, The University of Michigan, The University of Tokyo, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität – Munich, and several other colleges and universities worldwide, and more than two dozen international corporations, businesses, trade, and consumer organizations. He has taught courses on media coverage of risk issues at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, the Neiman Fellowship Program at Harvard, the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship program at MIT, Boston University’s Program in Science Journalism, the Emerson College program in Health Communication, and to the National Association of Science Writers, the Council for the Advancement of Science Writers, and the Society of Environmental Journalists. Prior to joining Harvard, Mr. Ropeik was a television reporter for WCVB-TV, Channel 5, in Boston for 22 years. He specialized in reporting on environment and science issues. He twice won the DuPont-Columbia Award (often cited as the television equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), and seven regional EMMY awards. He has Bachelors Degree (’72) and Masters Degree (’73) in Journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, 1994-95, and a National Tropical Botanical Garden Fellow in 1999. | |
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