Todd Ruthman
Practice Lead, Risk Management Technology
BASc
Joined RSI in 2006
Personal introduction
Current Focus
Todd Ruthman’s current focus is on tools that help regulators visualize and understand the public risk burden tools that help regulators visualize and understand the public risk burden within their mandates to help inform risk-based decisions. Mr. Ruthman provides design, management, modelling, coding, and database development expertise for these tools. Mr. Ruthman also manages the RSI development group enhancing previously released tools such as FDA-iRISK, a web-based system designed to analyze data concerning microbial and chemical hazards in food and return an estimate of the resulting health burden on a population level developed for the Food and Drug Administration, which is available at https://irisk.foodrisk.org/
Works and Accomplishments
Todd Ruthman has been developing and managing the development of web-based database applications for almost three decades and science-based and risk-based applications for almost two decades. He has provided these services to a number of clients from both the public and private sectors, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Transport Canada, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Publications:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1750-3841.2008.01042.x
https://meridian.allenpress.com/jfp/article/76/3/376/171897/FDA-iRISK-A-Comparative-Risk-Assessment-System-for
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963996914004724