Dr. William K. Hallman

Dr. William K. Hallman is a Distinguished Professor of Human Ecology at Rutgers University and an expert in public perceptions of risk and risk communication. An experimental psychologist, his 35-year career spans food safety, food insecurity, infectious diseases, air quality, and emerging technologies like gene editing and cell-cultured foods. His work focuses on helping the public understand and respond to health and environmental risks. Dr. Hallman is an elected Fellow of the AAAS and the Society for Risk Analysis and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. He has served on the National Academies’ Climate Crossroads Advisory Committee and has held leadership roles, including Director of the Rutgers Food Policy Institute and Chair of the FDA’s Risk Communication Advisory Committee. With over 250 publications, he has contributed to key works on science communication and risk, including handbooks published by NASEM, Oxford University Press, and FAO/WHO.