Gender Radiation & Impact Project
Reducing harm from radiation and creating better options
At the intersection of public health, medicine, and public policy is the Gender and Radiation Impact Project, an educational and funding group that brings together top thinkers to understand the role biological sex plays in harm from radiation. Their work is rooted in a new understanding of a silent siren has been going off for seventy-five years: for every two men who develop cancer through exposure to ionizing radiation, three women will get the disease.
Current regulations for everyone are based on data from adult men, with bodies ten times less likely to get cancer than if little girls are exposed. Known as “Reference Man,” he is the physiological standard by which current medical and scientific outcomes are measured against. With an overall goal of harm reduction, the Gender and Radiation Impact Project is fighting for better protection and better choices for preventing unintended exposure to radiation—for everyone, but especially for little girls who are most impacted. Since 2015, Silver Muse Productions has been their strategic communications advisor and created content for the launch of their website. STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS / MEDIA PLANNING / CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
