Supporting Individual Risk Assessment during COVID-19 (2022)
Chapter: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank the sponsors of SEAN—the National Science Foundation—and of the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats—the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. Special thanks go to members of the SEAN executive committee, who dedicated time and thought to this project: Mary T. Bassett (co-chair), New York State Department of Health; Robert M. Groves (co-chair), Georgetown University; Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Brandeis University; Mahzarin R. Banaji, Harvard University; Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Janet Currie, Princeton University; Michael Hout, New York University; Maria Carmen Lemos, University of Michigan; Adrian E. Raftery, University of Washington; and Wendy Wood, University of Southern California. We thank as well the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats.
We extend gratitude to the staff of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in particular to Emily P. Backes, Malvern T. Chiweshe, and Chelsea Fowler, who contributed research, editing, and writing assistance. We thank Mary Ghitelman, who led the communication and dissemination of the project. Thanks are also due to Elizabeth Tilton, who managed the administrative aspects of the project and assisted with report production. From the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, we thank Kirsten Sampson Snyder, who shepherded the report through the review process. We thank as well Rona Briere and John Hawkins for their skillful editing.
To supplement their own expertise, the authors received input from several external sources, whose willingness to share their perspectives and expertise was essential to this work. We thank Ron Carlee, Old Dominion University; Gretchen Chapman, Carnegie Mellon University; Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, American Medical Association; Branden Johnson, Decision Research; Leslie M. Kantor, Rutgers University; and Elizabeth Tricomi, Rutgers University.
We also thank the following individuals for their review of this rapid expert consultation: Karen S. Cook, Department of Sociology, Stanford University; Mirta Galesic, Human Social Dynamics, Sante Fe Institute; Kirsten Johnson, Commissioner of Health, City of Milwaukee Health Department; Daniel Kahneman, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Vish Viswanath, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and DanaFarber Cancer Institute.
Although the reviewers listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions of this document, nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review of this document was overseen by Alicia L. Carriquiry, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, and Robert A. Moffitt, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University. They were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this rapid expert consultation was carried out in accordance with the standards of the National Academies and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content rests entirely with the authors, and this document has been reviewed and approved for release by the National Academies.
