In January 2000, Ropeik joined the
Harvard School of Public Health, as Director of Communications for the Center for Risk Analysis and faculty member of the school's professional education course "The Risk Communication Challenge". He went on to become Instructor of risk communication at the school and co-director of the Risk Communication challenge course. He has taught courses on media coverage of risk issues at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government, the
Nieman Fellowship Program, The Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, Boston University's Program in Science Journalism,
Emerson College, the Council for the Advancement of Science Writers, the
National Association of Science Writers, and the Society of Environmental Journalists. With the then-director of the Center for Risk Analysis, George Gray, Ropeik co-authored the book "RISK, A Practical Guide for Deciding What’s Dangerous and What’s Safe in the World Around You", published by
Houghton Mifflin in 2002. In 2006, Ropeik left the School of Public Health, though he continued teaching in the
Harvard Extension School He is now an independent consultant to government, business, trade associations, consumer groups, and educational institutions. He has written dozens of articles on risk perception. He served as the risk communication member of the Congressionally mandated Veterans Affairs Board on Dose Reconstruction, which oversees the joint
Department of Defense and
Veterans Health Administration program to compensate veterans exposed to nuclear radiation. He was an Advisory Board member of the America Prepared campaign for terrorism and natural disaster preparedness, a joint effort of the
Department of Homeland Security, the
Advertising Council, the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and a consortium of businesses and individuals. ==Bibliography==