A SASS Lunch On
Communicating Science Effectively With
Wändi Bruine de Bruin

Join us for a thought-provoking lunch with Wändi Bruine de Bruin, the Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science at the the University of Southern California (USC) Sol Price School of Public Policy, and director of the USC Schaeffer Behavioral Science and Policy Initiative, whose research aims to understand and inform how people make decisions about personal health, their carbon footprint, and their household finances. She is an editorial board member for Perspectives on Psychological Science, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Decision, Medical Decision Making, the Journal of Risk Research, and Psychology and Aging, and has served on the National Academy of Sciences committee on Communicating Science Effectively and the Council of the Canadian Academies committee on Health Product Risk Communication. Her recent projects focus on what to call vegan food, whether we should change the term we use for climate change, improving IPCC graphs, and using the Lloyd's register Foundation world Risk Poll to understand and inform people's risk perceptions around the world. Views expressed are solely the speaker’s.