Podcasts

Our guest for episode 8 is Professor Magda Cerdá, a Professor and Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Magda’s research focuses on the effects that state and national drug and health policies have on substance abuse trends, and on the ways the urban context shapes violence.

Our guest for episode 7 is a Departmental Research Lecturer in the Economics of Environmental Change at the University of Oxford, Dr Pete Barbrook-Johnson. Pete is a social scientist, economist, and complexity scientist. He uses research methods such as agent-based modelling, systems mapping, and network analysis in my applied environmental, energy, and public health research and policy analysis.

Our guest for episode 6 is a Professor in system dynamics at the University of Bergen, Birgit Kopainsky. Birgit a systems thinker and modeler with a passion for learning in and about food and other social-ecological systems.

Our guest for episode 5 is one of the founders of modern computational sociology, Nigel Gilbert. Nigel has a Distinguished Chair in Computational Social Science at the University of Surrey. He is Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation, Director of the Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN), and Director of the University’s Institute of Advanced Studies.

System Science in Public Health Podcast Episode 4: Petra Meier in conversation with Patricia L. Mabry.

In this episode, Petra speaks to Patricia L. Mabry, an interdisciplinary scientist who applies cutting edge methodologies (modelling and simulation, data science, network science, Artificial Intelligence) to research questions in healthcare, science of science, tobacco control, and health disparities.

System Science in Public Health Podcast Episode 3: Petra Meier in conversation with Robin Purshouse.

In this episode, Petra speaks to Robin Purshouse, who is a Professor of Decision Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research interests include modelling, analysis and optimisation for supporting decision-making. Robin is a Co-Director of the SIPHER Consortium.

System Science in Public Health Podcast Episode 2: Petra Meier in conversation with Brian Castellani.

In this episode, Petra speaks to Brian Castellani who is a Professor of Sociology at Durham University. Brian is also a co-investigator of the Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN). His research focuses on advancing the tools of social complexity theory and computational social science for the study of public health questions.

System Science in Public Health Podcast Episode 1: Petra Meier in conversation with Jo-An Occhipinti.

Our first episode features Professor Jo-An Occhipinti who is Head of the Systems Modelling, Simulation and Data Science at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Australia. She is also the Managing Director of C-SART which is an international alliance of centres of excellence in systems modelling to inform health and social policy.