By Ally Brown A few months ago in The Guardian, Aditya Chakraborrty argued that the common feature of food poverty, fuel poverty, period poverty and child poverty is just poverty, […]

By Mohammad Hassannezhad and Daniel Chedgzoy Cascading effects arise when an initiating cause in one part of the system has knock-on effects on other parts, due to interdependencies between them. […]

By Colin Angus The World Health Organization recently published their Global Health Estimates for 2019 with a news story that led on the fact that 7 of the top 10 […]

By Ally Brown Before I discovered being a teenager, I played with a complex systems model every evening for hours on end, for weeks, for months. I wasn’t doing homework, […]

By Ellen Stewart Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health research is a field of practice which has grown at pace, and is now understood as central to high quality […]

By Colin Angus   The COVID-19 pandemic has had an almost unprecedented impact on mortality across the globe and the United Kingdom has been one of the worst affected countries, […]

By Lucy Gavens In September 2019, as the SIPHER Consortium officially launched, the Health Foundation published a report on the need for a whole-government approach to long-term investment in the […]

By Mohammad Hassannezhad & Lucy Gavens Policy decision-making is most effective when all stakeholders play an active role in the process of problem solving. Participatory systems mapping (PSM) is a […]

By Lucy Gavens The message that “we’re all in it together” has spread far and wide in recent months. But, evidence tells us that we are not all affected in […]

By Greg Fell Health and wealth is a two way relationship. Here is why… The economy is everything, everything is connected. The economy is not just about the activities of […]