Risk Management

The methods of risk analysis provide tools and processes for helping policy makers decide what problems to address, how to address them and in which order to do so. They have been applied across diverse topics that are reflected in RAND research including environmental management, public health, infrastructure resilience, disaster preparedness, research and development management, and national and homeland security.

This course introduces concepts of risk analysis and tools that can be used in all stages of risk analysis. Tools will be introduced using policy relevant case studies as examples. The course is designed to provide students an awareness of the fundamentals of risks analysis and an overview of application across a variety of public policy domains to prepare them to be critical consumers of risk analysis in the future and have a foundation to apply methods more deeply in their own research and analysis.