Analysis, Theory, and Simulation
The Public Health Dynamics Initiative at the University of Pittsburgh creates multi-disciplinary approaches to using various modeling techniques to predict how social factors affect health.
Other Pittsburgh Modeling Activities
For more information on modeling in public health, consult these resources:
August 2008 supplement of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine titled "The Science of Team Science."
“Concepts for an agent-based framework for interdisciplinary social science simulation,” Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 2, no. 2, http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/2/2/4.html
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London: http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/
Christakis NA, Fowler JH. 2007. The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years. New Engl J Med 357(4): 370-379.
Joshua Epstein, Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (Princeton University Press, 2006)
Joshua Epstein, Robert Axtell. Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up, with (Brookings/MIT Press, 1996)
Joshua Epstein, Derek A.T. Cummings, Shubba Chakravarty, Ramesh M. Singa, and Donald S. Burke, Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror: An Individual-Based Computational Approach. (Brookings Institute, 2004).
University of Michigan conference, "Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health.” http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?File=13867