Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research

The Risk Resilience Research Lab aims to improve justice, safety and well-being for people and communities at risk, through policy-relevant research. They partner with government and non-profit stakeholders, including the people they serve, to develop evidence-based strategies that: advance violence prevention and well-beingimprove treatment services and supervision, and reduce inequality in the justice system. To shed light on what works, their team uses a variety of disciplinary approaches and rigorous methods — from state-of-the-art analyses of ‘big data,’ to experiments in real-world settings. Their results often challenge common-sense assumptions about the cause of the problem and suggest innovative strategies for prevention, intervention, and justice.

The Risk and Uncertainty Management Center provides knowledge, frameworks, tools and experiences that lead to better decision-making in situations involving a wide variety of risks confronting organizations. In addition to gathering insights and sharing best practices and research with corporate partners, the center helps create opportunities for students to develop leading-edge skills in risk management and decision-making through real-world project assessment and strategy development that factor in both opportunity and risk using a range of analytical tools and methods.

In the AXIS Risk Management Academy, students from across campus collaborate to explore professional development resources and experiences to enhance their interest in risk management.

The Volatility and Risk Institute is an interdisciplinary center for research and analysis of financial and nonfinancial risks. It serves as a designated hub to support risk-related research and collaboration among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. It supports, promotes, and facilitates risk analysis, assessment, and measurement, and creates a bridge between faculty research and a specialized group of practitioners and market participants on the cutting-edge of real-world risk issues. To assess and analyze these risks, we are employing new data and analytical tools including those from data science and a wide range of machine learning technologies.

The Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is dedicated to the protection of public health through education, service, and research in risk policy. We provide scientists and decision makers with the tools necessary to ensure that environmental health policies result in improved public health. We offer multidisciplinary education designed to broaden the base of scientific knowledge underlying risk assessment and thus bridge the gap between environmental health science and policy. Our research and service activities improve the science base for risk assessment, cultivate better risk assessment methods, and enhance the risk management process.

The Centre for Risk Studies provides frameworks for recognising, assessing and managing the impacts of systemic threats. The research programme is concerned with catastrophes and how their impacts ripple across an increasingly connected world with consequent effects on the international economy, financial markets, firms in the financial sectors and global corporations. To test our research outputs and guide our research agenda, the Centre engages with the business community, government policy makers, regulators and industry bodies.