Professional Development Workshops The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCA) is pleased to offer a series of six professional development workshops prior to its 2015 Annual Conference and Meeting, organized by leading practitioners and scholars. Location: Marvin Center at the George Washington University, 800 21st St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20052 Date: March 18, 2015, 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. Topics: 1) Benefit-Cost Analysis in the States: Status, Results First, and Options to Increase Usage among Policymakers. Organizer: Darcy White, Pew Charitable Trusts 2) Use of Expert Elicitation to Inform Decision-Making. Organizer: Aylin Sertkaya, Eastern Research Group, Incorporated 3) An Overview of Climate Change, Its Impacts and the Social Cost of Carbon. Organizer: Elisabeth Gilmore, University of Maryland 4) Estimating the Benefits of Improved Air Quality with the Open Source BenMAP-CE Tool. Organizer: Neal Fann, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 5) QALYs in Cost-Effectiveness and Benefit-Cost Analysis. Organizer: Scott Grosse, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 6) Retrospective Benefit-Cost Analysis. Organizers: Jennifer Baxter, Industrial Economics, Incorporated and Lisa Robinson, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis To register, please visit: http://benefitcostanalysis.org/2015-preconference-professional-developmentworkshops Questions? To learn more, please visit our website at benefitcostanalysis.org. SBCA 2015 Board of Directors: W. Kip Viscusi, President (Vanderbilt University); Susan Dudley, Vice President (George Washington University); Lisa Robinson, Past President (Harvard Center for Risk Analysis); Richard Belzer, Treasurer (Regulatory Checkbook); Randall Lutter, Assistant Treasurer (University of Virginia); Elizabeth Gilmore, Secretary (University of Maryland); Sandra Archibald (University of Washington); Mark Cohen (Vanderbilt University); James K. Hammitt (Harvard University); Robert Johansson (U.S. Department of Agriculture); Lynn Karoly (RAND Corporation); Craig Thornton (Mathematica Policy Research); Jack Wells (U.S. Department of Transportation) Sponsored by the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis c/o University of Washington • Box 353055 • Seattle, WA 98195 206.616.4090 • [email protected] • www.benefitcostanalysis.org