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The Pebble Remains in the Master's Hand: Two Careers Spent Learning (Still) from John Evans
Author(s) -
Finkel Adam M.,
Gray George M.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/risa.13649
Subject(s) - active listening , theme (computing) , value (mathematics) , work (physics) , psychology , public relations , sociology , political science , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , communication , machine learning , operating system
In this article, we discuss four vexing problems in risk‐based decision making that John Evans has addressed over the last nearly 40 years and has perennially challenged the two of us and others to think about. We tackle the role in decision making of potential thresholds in dose–response functions, how the lack of health reference values for many chemicals may distort risk management, the challenge of model uncertainty for risk characterization, and the yet‐untapped potential for value‐of‐information analysis to enhance public health decision making. Our theme is that work remains to be done on each of these, but that some of that work would merely involve listening to ideas that John has already offered.