As part of Public Health Ideas, a platform for the dean of WashU School of Public Health to share and discuss researchers’ work, Dean Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, talks with Douglas Luke, PhD, the Distinguished Professor in Public Health Systems Science at WashU. They discussed a paper Luke co-authored, “Bridges and Mechanisms: Integrating Systems Science […]
Category: Systems Science
Introducing the Health Design & Impact Lab
We are excited to announce the launch of the new Health Design and Impact Lab (HDIL) at the School of Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis. Built on a mission to engage communities in advanced design to develop interventions and improve systems for lasting health impact, the HDIL is dedicated to designing health interventions […]
Applications are open for the 6th annual SSSI Summer Training Institute
The 6th annual Systems Science for Social Impact (SSSI) Summer Training Institute will be held at the School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis, from July 28-August 1, 2025. Applications are open. At this 5-day Summer Training Institute, participants will get a hands-on introduction to systems science methods that enhance the social […]
Applications are open for the 5th annual SSSI Summer Training Institute
The 5th annual Systems Science for Social Impact (SSSI) Summer Training Institute will be held at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, from August 12 – 16, 2024. Applications are open. At this 5-day Summer Training Institute, participants will get a hands-on introduction to systems science methods that enhance the social impact […]
Applications are open for the 4th annual SSSI Summer Training Institute
The 4th annual Systems Science for Social Impact (SSSI) Summer Training Institute will be held at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, from July 31 – August 4, 2023. Applications are open. At this 5-day Summer Training Institute, participants will get a hands-on introduction to systems science methods that enhance the social […]
Applications are open for the 3rd annual SSSI Summer Training Institute
The 3rd annual Systems Science for Social Impact (SSSI) Summer Training Institute will be held at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, from July 25-29, 2022. Applications are open. At this 5-day Summer Training Institute, participants will get a hands-on introduction to systems science methods that enhance the social impact of health […]
Center Uses Partnerships to Broaden its Public Health Impact
From Brown School News, July 1, 2021 Although the Brown School’s Center for Public Health Systems Science tackles a wide variety of research, its two decades of nationwide success can be traced largely to a single element: collaboration. The center’s largest current project, ASPiRE, is a good example. The $11.6 million tobacco-control effort with teams from Stanford […]
Applications are open for the 2nd annual SSSI Summer Training Institute
The 2nd annual Systems Science for Social Impact (SSSI) Summer Training Institute will be held virtually, hosted by the Washington University’s Brown School, from August 2-6, 2021. Co-organized by instructors Ross Hammond, Matt Kasman, Ellis Ballard, Kelsey Werner, Douglas Luke, Todd Combs, Nasim Sabounchi, and Kristin Hassmiller Lich, the 5-day workshop will train approximately 60 […]
First Annual Systems Science for Social Impact Summer Training Institute
The 1st annual Systems Science for Social Impact Summer Training Institute will be held at the Washington University’s Brown School from July 29 to August 2, 2019. Co-organized by principal faculty Ross Hammond, Douglas Luke, and Peter Hovmand, the 5-day workshop will train up to 45 participants in systems science methods, especially those most useful for enhancing the […]
Tobacco Town shows benefits of limiting retailers
From April 28, 2017 ASPPH Friday Letter Reducing the number of retailers that sell tobacco products could benefit public health, but the strategies for doing so should be adjusted to account for differing community characteristics, according to new research from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Researchers used a computational model they […]
New book on Systems Science and Population Health
A new book, Systems Science and Population Health, edited by Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed and Sandro Galea, was published this March by Oxford University Press (OUP). Chapter 10 is entitled Social Network analysis: the ubiquity of social networks and their importance for population health and was authored by CPHSS director Douglas A. Luke, senior data analyst Bobbi […]
Mentoring is Key to Future Collaboration
From ASPPH Friday LetterJanuary 12, 2017Mentoring relationships developed during implementation training resulted in more scientific collaboration by participants years later, according to new research from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Researchers surveyed 94 participants in training conducted from 2012-2014 at the Implementation Research Institute, a two-year training in mental health implementation […]