Wändi Bruine de Bruin

About

Wändi Bruine de Bruin is a professor associated with USC Price, with a focus on public policy, health policy and management, and data analytics. Her work involves research on governance, health financing, and social innovation, contributing to the understanding of policy analysis and decision-making processes. She is involved in various research centers and initiatives, including the Center for Health Financing, Policy and Management, and the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. Her background includes extensive engagement in public policy education and research, with a particular emphasis on social justice, risk analysis, and sustainable policy planning. She contributes to the development of academic programs and collaborates across multiple disciplines to advance knowledge in public policy and urban planning. Her key contributions include fostering research that informs policy decisions and supporting initiatives that address societal challenges through innovative governance and health policy solutions.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Psychology
• Medicine
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Business
• Law
• Demographic economics
• Economics
• Social psychology

Selected publications

• Age Differences in COVID-19 Risk Perceptions and Mental Health: Evidence From a National U.S. Survey Conducted in March 2020

  The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 2020 · 489 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  OBJECTIVES: Theories of aging posit that older adult age is associated with less negative emotions, but few studies have examined age differences at times of novel challenges. As COVID-19 spread in the United States, this study therefore aimed to examine age differences in risk perceptions, anxiety, and depression. METHOD: In March 2020, a nationally representative address-based sample of 6,666 U.S. adults assessed their perceived risk of getting COVID-19, dying if getting it, getting quarantine…

  DOI

• Relationships Between Initial COVID-19 Risk Perceptions and Protective Health Behaviors: A National Survey

  American Journal of Preventive Medicine · 2020 · 481 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  DOI

• Political polarization in US residents’ COVID-19 risk perceptions, policy preferences, and protective behaviors

  Journal of Risk and Uncertainty · 2020 · 279 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  DOI

• Human social sensing is an untapped resource for computational social science

  Nature · 2021 · 98 citations

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Self-reported anticipated harm from drinking water across 141 countries

  Nature Communications · 2024-08-25 · 25 citations

  articleOpen access

  Perceptions of drinking water safety shape numerous health-related behaviors and attitudes, including water use and valuation, but they are not typically measured. We therefore characterize self-reported anticipated harm from drinking water in 141 countries using nationally representative survey data from the World Risk Poll (n = 148,585 individuals) and identify national- and individual-level predictors. We find that more than half (52.3%) of adults across sampled countries anticipate serious h…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Andrew M. Parker

  Monash University

  120 shared

• Baruch Fischhoff

  Carnegie Mellon University

  112 shared

• JoNell Strough

  West Virginia University

  95 shared

• Wilbert van der Klaauw

  41 shared

• Julie S. Downs

  Carnegie Mellon University

  36 shared

• Andrea Taylor

  University of Leeds

  34 shared

• M. Granger Morgan

  28 shared

• Giorgio Topa

  27 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Public Policy

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1999

• M.A., Public Policy

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1996

• B.A., Political Science

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1993

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