Instructors and Staff
Course Instructors
Greg Paoli
is a co-founder and Principal Risk Scientist at Risk Sciences International (RSI), a company based in Ottawa, Canada, and specializing in public health risk analysis. Greg has been researching and consulting in risk assessment and risk management in the field of public health and safety for 15 years. He has experience in diverse risk management domains including microbiological and toxicological hazards, climate change impact assessment, engineering devices, and risk-based priority-setting across multiple hazards. His consulting activities have spanned risk assessment, risk management and risk communication. Greg has recently served on a US National Academy of Sciences committee which recently issued a report entitled, Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment. He has served on several of the expert committees convened by JEMRA (World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization) and currently serves on Health Canada's Expert Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance Risk Assessment. Greg has provided training in quantitative risk assessment and risk analysis across North America, including the Harvard School of Public Health's continuing education program, as well as in South America and Japan. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Risk Analysis: An International Journal and served a term as Councilor of the Society for Risk Analysis. Greg has a Master's Degree in Systems Design Engineering and a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Charles Yoe
is a Professor of Economics at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland and is an adjunct full professor at the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Maryland. Dr. Yoe has developed and taught seminars and courses in risk assessment and risk management for both U.S. and international government agencies in both face-to-face and distance learning formats. Dr. Yoe has completed or participated in over 50 risk assessment projects. He has published numerous manuscripts in the area of risk analysis and has served as a consultant to government and private industry in the areas of food safety and food defense. He has served on a number of expert panels and FAO/WHO expert consultations. His recent work has included vulnerability assessments for food processors with a special focus on the dairy industry, risk-based sampling procedures used by FSIS, qualitative risk assessment techniques, and international trade of animals and animal products. Dr. Yoe teaches several face-to-face and online courses: 'Overview of Risk Analysis', ‘Food Safety Risk Management', 'Food Safety Risk Assessment', among others.
Monique Mitchell Turner
is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. She received her Ph.D. in communication from Michigan State University in 1999. Having previously held faculty positions in Departments of Communication at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas, Dr. Turner has spent over a decade researching health communication and risk communication. In particular, Turner’s research program focuses on understanding how emotion affects the ways in which individuals cognitively process messages and therefore form their risk perceptions. Her research informs risk message design, risk perception, and risk prevention. In 2005, Dr. Turner was appointed the director of the Center for Risk Communication Research at the University of Maryland. Her research conducted at the center has been funded by organizations such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN), the Centers for Disease Control, and the Department of Homeland Security. Currently, Turner is working on four funded projects. Two of the projects are examinations of how emotions experienced after a food recall impacts future health decisions of consumers and retailers (both funded by JIFSAN), an evaluation of the ALERT campaign (funded by JIFSAN), and a content of the risk communication during the DEG crisis in Panama (contract from the CDC through the Oak Ridge Institutes). Turner has published over two dozen refereed research articles, book chapters and books on persuasion, health communication and risk perception. She was formerly the associate editor of the journal Communication Research Reports and she is the past elected chair of the Communication and Social Cognition Division of the National Communication Association. Dr. Turner teaches the JIFSAN course ‘Food Safety Risk Communication’ both online and face-to-face.
Staff
Judy Quigley
Kyle McKillop
Juliana M. Ruzante
is the Risk Analysis Manager for JIFSAN. She worked for the University of Guelph and Public Health Agency of Canada developing and operationalizing a multi-factorial framework to rank foodborne risks using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and at the Western Institute for Food Safety and Security developing training material on animal health and food safety. She also worked as a Quality Assurance Specialist for one of the largest pork and poultry processing companies in Brazil. She was a member of the Food Safety Research Consortium and has served as an expert on the meeting organized by Food Agriculture Organization and World Heath Organization on the risks associated with Enterobacter sakazakii. She also serves as a member of the Committee on Review of Use of Process Indicators in FSIS Public Health Risk-based Inspection System organized by The National Academies. Dr. Ruzante received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from University of São Paulo and Master in Preventive Veterinary Medicine (MPVM) and PhD in Comparative Pathology from the University of California, Davis.
