1.Introduction
Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed
SECTION 1: Simplicity, complexity and population health
2. Reductionism at the dawn of population health
Kristin Heitman
3. Wrong answers: when simple interpretations create complex
problems
David S. Fink, Katherine M. Keyes
4. Complexity: the evolution towards 21st century science
Anton Palma, David W. Lounsbury
5. Systems thinking in population health research and policy
Stephen Mooney
SECTION 2: Methods in systems population health
6. Generation of systems maps: mapping complex systems of
population health
Helen de Pinho
7. Systems dynamics models
Eric Lofgren
8. Agent-based modeling
Brandon Marshall
9. Microsimulation
Sanjay Basu
10. Social network analysis: the ubiquity of social networks
and their importance for population health
Douglas A. Luke, Amar Dhand, Bobbi J. Carothers
SECTION 3: Systems science towards a consequential population
health
11. Machine learning
James H. Faghmous
12. Systems science and the social determinants of population
health
David S. Fink, Katherine M. Keyes, Magdalena Cerdá
13. Systems approaches to understanding how the environment
influences population health and population health
interventions
Melissa Tracy
14. Systems of behavior and population health
Mark Orr, Kathryn Ziemer, Daniel Chen
15. Systems under your skin
Karina Standahl Olsen, Hege Bøvelstad, Eiliv Lund
16. Frontiers in health modeling
Nathaniel Osgood
17. Systems science and population health
Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, Sandro Galea
Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, is a public health physician
and epidemiologist. He serves the City of Detroit as the Executive
Director of the Detroit Health Department and Health Officer. Under
his leadership, the Detroit Health Department has emerged as a
state and national leader in promoting healthy air quality, lead
elimination, and public health innovation. Dr. El-Sayed's research
explores urban health policy, the social determinants of health,
and
health inequalities. Previously, he was a professor in the
Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University.
Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, is a physician and an epidemiologist
interested in the social production of health of urban populations.
His work explores innovative cells-to-society approaches to
population health questions. He is interested in advancing a
consequentialist approach to population health scholarship. He
currently serves as Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean of the School
of Public Health at Boston University. He is a past president of
the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and an
elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Together they have been engaged in systems science scholarship and
education for more than 15 years.
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