Communicating Arsenic’s Risks

Dartmouth Superfund Research Program Director Celia Chen, former Dartmouth Superfund Research Program Community Engagement Core (CEC) Leaders Shannon Rogers (lead author) and Mark Borsuk, current Research Translation Coordinator Laurie Rardin, and former CEC Coordinator Kathrin Lawlor are co-authors of the paper Communicating Arsenic’s Risks. The study describes “two types of environmental communication efforts that have been undertaken by the Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program (DTMSRP)-the development and evaluation of a comprehensive website, Arsenic and You, and a mental models research approach to better understand the disconnect between expert and community perceptions of arsenic risk.” The paper is published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.