Systems Change Lecture Series
Join us on Tue, Apr 09 2024 at 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM for an exciting event exploring the relationship between social networks and health. Discover the latest evidence and innovative approaches in this field.
Dr. Nicholas Christakis will review three classes of interventions involving both offline and online networks that can help make the world better:
interventions that rewire the connections between people
interventions that manipulate social contagion, facilitating the flow of desirable properties within groups
interventions that manipulate the position of people within network structures
This lecture discussed computational and statistical methods used in social networks research, issues of how and why people are socially connected to each other, and the consequences of those connections
In this Systems Change Lecture, Dr. Cole Hooley of Brigham Young University discusses several frameworks that outline important determinants of scale-up.
In this lecture, Dr. Emily Haines discusses potential applications of user-centered design in implementation research. Following a brief overview of the field of implementation science, she describes how user-centered design can be leveraged to harmonize interventions, the contexts in which they are implemented, and the strategies used to facilitate their implementation. In particular, she uses her dissertation research on improving care coordination for adolescents and young adults with cancer to highlight selected methods from user-centered design including usability testing, ethnographic contextual inquiry, and prototyping methods.
About the speaker:
Emily Haines is a T32 postdoctoral fellow in the Wake Forest School of Medicine's Cancer Prevention and Control Training Program. She received her PhD from the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health, where she studied implementation and organization science. Topically, Dr. Haines' research focuses on improving cancer care coordination, particularly for adolescents and young adults. Methodologically, she is interested in the application of user-centered design in implementation research to improve fit between interventions and the contexts in which they will be implemented. Other research interests include the use of ethnographic methods and the use of organizational theory in implementation science.
Implementation Science and Complexity Science at a Crossroads: Design Science for Social Justice and Public Health
A growing list of public health issues have been characterized as “wicked” problems with the call for new approaches to identifying system leverage points and ways to bring solutions to scale to improve population health. This has led to growing interest in complexity or systems science approaches to implementation science, especially as a way to advance health equity. This talk provides a brief overview of the intersection of implementation science and complexity science, critically reviews some of the trends in emerging research and interest in systems science, more recent interest in design thinking, and argues for a more focused program of design science research for advancing social justice and public health.
Peter S. Hovmand, PhD, MSW is a professor of general medicine, applied social science, and biomedical engineering at the Center for Community Health Integration, Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining Case Western Reserve, Dr. Hovmand was the founding director of the Brown School’s Social System Design Lab at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Hovmand’s research focuses on understanding the systems that underlie structural violence and participatory methods for engaging communities and organizations to advance equity through design driven innovation. Dr. Hovmand is the author of Community Based System Dynamics.
This workshop series helps participants understand, evaluate, and improve upon problems that manifest themselves in complex systems.
The 3 workshops focus on the basic concepts of systems thinking and system dynamics modeling, and participants will understand, evaluate, and improve upon problems that manifest themselves in complex systems. System dynamics is a systems science methodology that builds tools for simulating time-dependent, complex problems characterized by feedback structures (loops). The workshop series emphasizes applications of system dynamics in policy analysis and program planning in public health. The workshops will also provide an opportunity to practice modeling skills through hands-on exercises, and also learn how to use the system dynamics modeling software. The agenda is as follows:
Part I – Friday March 20th 2- 5 pm: Provides an overview of the system dynamics modeling process and covers structure-behavior relationship, behavior modes and causal loop diagrams. (This event has ended.)
Part II – Friday April 3rd 2- 5 pm: Introduces stock-and-flow diagrams and basic model-building techniques in system dynamics.
Part III – Friday April 24th 2- 5 pm: Covers material and information delays and discusses modeling S-shaped growth and common SIR models.
Part II Instructors:
Dr. Nasim Sabounchi (CSCD)
Dr. David Lounsbury (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
*Registration information will be shared after the Part II of the series.
This workshop series helps participants understand, evaluate, and improve upon problems that manifest themselves in complex systems.
*Part II of this series will ONLY be offered virtually. We will send you a Zoom link and dial-in phone number to all Eventbrite registrants leading up to the event.
Eventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/systems-science-virtual-workshop-series-part-ii-tickets-100965893706
The Center for Systems and Community Design (CSCD) of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) is offering the Systems Science Workshop Series, which consists of three sessions. These events are co-hosted by the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center.
The 3 workshops focus on the basic concepts of systems thinking and system dynamics modeling, and participants will understand, evaluate, and improve upon problems that manifest themselves in complex systems. System dynamics is a systems science methodology that builds tools for simulating time-dependent, complex problems characterized by feedback structures (loops). The workshop series emphasizes applications of system dynamics in policy analysis and program planning in public health. The workshops will also provide an opportunity to practice modeling skills through hands-on exercises, and also learn how to use the system dynamics modeling software. The agenda is as follows:
Part I – Friday March 20th 2- 5 pm: Provides an overview of the system dynamics modeling process and covers structure-behavior relationship, behavior modes and causal loop diagrams. (This event has ended.)
Part II (NEXT) – Friday April 3rd 2- 5 pm: Introduces stock-and-flow diagrams and basic model-building techniques in system dynamics.
Part III – Friday April 24th 2- 5 pm: Covers material and information delays and discusses modeling S-shaped growth and common SIR models.
Part II Instructors
Dr. Nasim Sabounchi (CSCD)
Dr. David Lounsbury (Albert Einstein College of Medicine).
*If you have not attended previous Parts of this series, you can still register for upcoming Parts.
*Please RSVP for the second workshop through this Eventbrite invitation. Even if you have signed up for Part I, please RSVP for Parts II & III separately.
This workshop series helps participants understand, evaluate, and improve upon problems that manifest themselves in complex systems.
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management Director, Center for Systems and Community Design Co-Director, NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
Research Associate Professor Department of Health Policy and Management Center for Systems and Community Design CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Population Health Associate Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Training Division of Health Behavior Research and Implementation Science Albert Einstein College of Medicine
From implementation science to community engagement, systems science methodologies, like system dynamics modeling, engage stakeholders in a participatory process that often yields compelling, graphic ways of informing both challenges and solutions to complex systems problems.
The aim of this process is to generate useful models to better understand how diverse community stakeholders work in partnership to address opioid use disorder, and how to effectively implement evidence-based interventions to reduce overdose morbidity and mortality at the local level.
These models will also likely inform the maintenance and sustainability of effective interventions over time and policy decisions in New York State and nationally.
The National Institute of Health (NIH) launched the HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-termSM) initiative, an aggressive, trans-agency effort to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis. The School of Social Work received an $86 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to spearhead an ambitious multi-year effort to reduce opioid overdose deaths in New York State. The effort, part of a nationwide research study on how to address the opioid crisis, is being led by SIG Director and University Professor Dr. Nabila El-Bassel.
This federal grant, one of Columbia’s largest ever, brings together Columbia’s School of Social Work, the Department of Psychiatry, the Mailman School of Public Health, the Data Science Institute, as well as researchers from Albert Einstein School of Medicine/Montefiore Health System, City University of New York, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York University School of Medicine, University of Miami, and Yale School of Medicine.
For several decades, food insecurity and hunger have been conflated with physical food access, framing the problem as the insufficiency of conventional food retailers, a market failure needing policies like supermarket subsidies. Dr. Cohen will present several alternative approaches to measuring and analyzing the upstream determinants of food access and innovative business models aimed at reducing food insecurity, from a co-design project to make online grocery delivery accessible to public housing residents to a non-profit meal kit delivery service that aims to improve nutrition and family cohesion among time-stressed low-income households.
Bio
Nevin Cohen is Associate Professor at the CUNY) School of Public Health, and Research Director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute. His research explores policies and systems to support socially just, healthy, resilient urban food systems. Current research includes a five-country analysis of urban agriculture, research on food access innovations; and a study of zoning, planning, and food gentrification. Dr. Cohen co-authored Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City. He has a PhD in Urban Planning from Rutgers University, a Masters in City Planning from Berkeley, and a BA from Cornell.
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