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Vincent T. Covello, Ph.D., is the founder and director of the Center for
Risk Communication in New York City. He is a nationally and internation-
ally recognized researcher, consultant, and expert in risk, crisis, and high
stress communications. He serves as a senior communications advisor to
several hundred private and public sector organizations, including the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, and various agencies within the United Nations. Dr.
Covello’s most recent assignments include trainings, workshops, and con-
sultations related to communications concerning food safety, biotechnol-
ogy, pesticide use, bioterrorism, nuclear power, and pandemic influenza.
Over the past 30 years, Dr. Covello has held positions in academia and
government. Prior to establishing the Center for Risk Communication, he
was associate professor of Environmental Sciences and Clinical Medicine
on the faculty of Medicine at Columbia University in New York City. He
received his doctorate from Columbia University and his B.A. with hon-
ors and M.A. from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He has
authored or edited more than 25 books and over 100 published articles
on risk and crisis communication in scientific and medical journals. Dr.
Covello’s most recent book, published in 2007 by the United Nations, is
titled Effective Media Communication during Public Health Emergencies:
A World Health Organization Handbook.

Yael Danieli, Ph.D. is clinical psychologist and traumatologist in private
practice; and cofounder (1975) and director, Group Project for Holocaust
Survivors and their Children, with extensive psychotherapeutic work with
massively traumatized individuals, families, groups, and communities.
Having studied lifelong and multigenerational impact on victim/survivors
and societal and professional responses/attitudes, she has lectured/super-
vised/studied/trained worldwide and published extensively (translated
into over 17 languages), including on victims’ rights, optimal care and
specialized training, and protection for related professionals. Founding
director, past president, and senior representative to the United Nations
of the International society for Traumatic Stress Studies (formerly, of the
World Federation for Mental Health); Dr. Danieli has participated in all
UN work on victims’ right, consulted numerous governments and orga-
nizations, and advised the UN Secretary-General on victims (of terror-
ism). She is also copresident of the International Network of Holocaust
and Genocide Survivors and Their Friends. Her books are International
Responses to Traumatic Stress; The Universal Declaration of Human
Rights: Fifty Years and Beyond; Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills,