Clarifying risk to improve readiness
Working with leaders to inform effective communication and keep people safer worldwide.
USC Completed 2022
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Partners
We partnered with Lloyd’s Register Foundation to help global organizations understand emergency preparedness in vulnerable countries—and share safety information with those most at risk.
We were involved with the World Risk Poll in 2021 and 2023, helping provide the evidence international organizations need to help the public protect themselves from threats like natural disasters, financial dangers, droughts, and beyond. We worked directly with international organizations to analyze the World Risk Poll—and turn its findings into new communications strategies and educational tools.
This work revealed insights into how people perceive risk, and country-level data helped organizations like Save the Children and Waterkeeper Alliance better understand how to better communicate with vulnerable groups. The latest research, once published, looks at the intersection and linkages between water insecurity and food insecurity, and can better equip organizations working in these spaces to reach populations facing this threat.
Meet the project team

Carling Monder
Project Manager

Wändi Bruine de Bruin
Lead Researcher
Clinical Professor/Research Professor, Research Director, Endowed Chair
Price School of Public Policy, and Dornsife Psychology
Research team

Josh Inwald
PhD Student
Dornsife Psychology

Patrycja Sleboda
Research Associate
Environmental and Health Behavior
Wrigley Institute Environment and Sustainability and the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economic
