Dominic Balog-Way

Dr. Dominic Balog-Way is a research associate (RTE Faculty) in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and member of the Risk Communication Research Group. He has interdisciplinary research interests that broadly concern risk, science, health, and environmental communication across policy domains and countries. Recent projects have revolved around scientific misinformation, strategic risk communication, public perceptions of novel energy technologies, upstream public engagement, attenuated risk issues, and government transparency. He is the primary course instructor for Communication, Environment, Science, and Health (COMM 2850/ STS 2851), and has taught undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional courses in Europe and the United States on risk communication, environmental communication, health communication, risk management, risk governance, and social science research methods. He frequently advises state, national, and international governments, as well as businesses, advocacy groups, and both undergraduate and graduate students. He is also a faculty fellow at Court-Kay-Bauer Hall.

Dominic holds a BA in Geography, MSc in Risk Analysis, and PhD in Geography, all from King’s College London. Before starting his current position, he completed post-doctorates at Cornell and King’s, and was a visiting lecturer at Maastricht University. Since 2011, he has been an active member of the Society for Risk Analysis, serving terms as Chair of the Risk Communication and Risk Policy and Law specialty groups. In 2023, he was elected inaugural Chair of the society’s Strategic Endowment Fund Board. He is the founder of Risk Communication Forums, a virtual meeting series bringing together risk communication experts from universities located across Europe and North America; founder of GEOHUB, a trans-Atlantic novel geothermal energy research collaboration; and co-organizer of the annual Ditchley Group Forums on advancing pharmaceutical benefit-risk communication.