Elizabeth Casman

Currently, her bioterrorism-related research includes

• the potential of urban ecosystems to support rodent-borne plague epidemics,
• risk communication strategies for rapidly changing and complex bioterrorism scenarios,
• rapid detection of covert bio-attacks
• the economic impact of bioterrorism, and
• the effect of the Patriot Act and the Bioterrorism Preparedness Act on the scientific community.

Professional affiliations

• CAMRA, the EPA/DHS Center for the Advancement of Microbial Risk Assessment. http://camra.msu.edu/index.html,
• the CMU Center for Risk Perception and Communication http://sds.hss.cmu.edu/risk/Home.htm,
• the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research http://www.cmu.edu/environment/, and
• WaterQuest, http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~wquest/

Representative Publications

E. Casman and M. G. Morgan (2005) "Use of Expert Judgment to Bound Lung Cancer Risks," Environmental Science & Technology, 39(16): 5911-5920

Minh Ha-Duong, Elizabeth A. Casman, and M. Granger Morgan (2004) "Bounding Poorly Characterized Risks: a Lung Cancer Example," Risk Analysis, 24(5):1071-83.

Elizabeth Casman (2004) "The Potential of Next-Generation Microbiological Diagnostics to Improve Bioterrorism Detection Speed" Risk Analysis, 24(3):521-536.

E. A. Casman, M. J. Small, B. Fischhoff, H. Dowlatabadi, and M. G. Morgan (2001) "Climate Change and Cryptosporidiosis: A Thought Experiment Using an Influence Diagram", Climatic Change, 50(1/2):219-249.

E. A. Casman, B. Fischhoff, M. J. Small, C. Palmgren, and F. Wu (2000) "An Integrated Risk Model of a Drinking-Water-Borne Cryptosporidiosis Outbreak" Risk Analysis 20(4):493-509.

E. A. Casman, M. G. Morgan, and H. Dowlatabadi (1999) "Mixed Levels of Uncertainty in Complex Policy Models" Risk Analysis, 19(1):33-42.

E. Casman and H. Dowlatabadi, eds. (2002) The Contextual Determinants of Malaria, Resources for the Future Press, Washington, D.C.

F. Wu, D. Miller and E. Casman (2005) "Bt corn and Mycotoxin Reduction: an Economic Perspective," in Aflatoxin and Food Safety, Hamed K. Abbas, ed., CRC Press. NY, pages 459-82.

Li-Chiou Chen, Boris Kaminsky, Tiffany Tummino, Kathleen M. Carley, Elizabeth Casman, Douglas Fridsma, Alex Yahja (2004) "Aligning Simulation Models of Smallpox Outbreaks" Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics: ISI-2004, June 10-11, 2004, Tucson Arizona.

Martin P. Krayer von Krauss, Elizabeth A. Casman, Mitchell J. Small (2004) "Elicitation of expert judgments of uncertainty in the risk assessment of herbicide tolerant oilseed crops," Risk Analysis, 24(6):1515-1527.

F. Wu, D. Miller and E. Casman (2004) "The Economic Impact of Bt Corn Resulting from Mycotoxin Reduction" Journal of Toxicology - Toxin Reviews, Aflatoxin and Food Safety Part II, 23(2/3): 397-424.

S. Farrow, B. Morel, F. Wu and E. Casman (2003) "Pesticide Resistance, the Precautionary Principle, and the Regulation of Bt Corn: Real and Rational Option Approaches to Decision-Making" In, Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides - an Economic Approach, R. Laxminarayan, ed., RFF Press, Washington, D.C.

K.M. Carley, D. Fridsma, E. Casman, N. Altman, J. Chang, B. Kaminski, D. Nave, and A. Yahja (2003). "BioWar: Scalable Multi-Agent Social and Epidemiological Simulation of Bioterrorism Events." NAACSOS Conference Proceedings, Pittsburgh, PA.

Elmieh, N., Dowlatabadi, H. and Casman, E. (2006). A model for Probabilistic Assessment of Malathion Spray Exposures (PAMSE) in British Columbia. BC Centre for Disease Control.