Events

The Mailman School of Public Health is hosting the Institute on Systems Science and Health (ISSH 2010) from June 13-18. The Institute, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control, aims to provide training on a selected set of systems science methodologies that may be used to study behavioral and social dimensions of current public health challenges. A series of five plenary talks will be open to the entire Mailman School community. This is an excellent opportunity to get a feel for what the systems science approach to health is all about.

The plenary talks are geared towards investigators, at any stage of their career, who have an interest in but little or no formal training in systems science. Each talk will take place in the Mailman School Auditorium (8th FL. Rosenfield Building).

MONDAY, JUNE 14
4:00 – 5:00 PM
Developing Tools in Public Health to Inform Policy Decision Makers
Dr. Jonathan Fielding
Los Angeles Department of Public Health

TUESDAY, JUNE 15
1:30 – 2:30 PM
Spatial Approaches to Modeling Diseases Dispersion
Dr. Ling Bian
SUNY, Buffalo

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16
1:30 – 2:30 PM
Modeling Coronary Heart Disease
Dr. Lee Goldman
Columbia University Medical Center

THURSDAY, JUNE 17
1:30 – 3:00 PM
Using Systems Thinking and Collaborative Modeling to Improve State Policymaking
Dr. Karen Minyard
Georgia Health Policy Center

Systems thinking to enhance knowledge exchange for complex public policy problems
Dr. Diane Finegood
Simon Fraser University