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Comparing Opportunities To Reduce Health Risks: Toxin Control

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John D. Graham is Professor of Policy and Decision Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he teaches the methods of risk analysis and benefit-cost analysis. Dr. Graham is the founding Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, which promotes analytical thinking about societal responses to health, safety and environmental hazards. He also heads the Harvard Injury Control Center, which promotes science-based interventions to control trauma from both intentional and unintentional causes. Dr. Graham is the author of four books and dozens of scientific articles and serves on the international Editorial Boards of Risk Analysis and Accident Analysis and Prevention. He has served on several committees of the National Academy of Sciences and is President-elect of the Society for Risk Analysis.


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r and thereby add 600,000 life-years to the life expectancy of the American people. (A "life-year" saved is a statistical measure of how much a lifesaving program increases the life span of a target population.)