Competing Methods for Modelling Urban Healthcare Reform in China: Agent Based and System Dynamics Modeling and Computer Simulation
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, April 21, 2015 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 416-946-8900 |
Series
Frontiers of Research in Global Innovation
Description
ABSTRACT: Solutions to many global health and global development problems require identifying and implementing social innovations that span multiple human service sectors (e.g., housing, water, healthcare, education). However, identifying, implementing, and sustainably scaling social innovations to address such problems is inherently challenging and in many ways different from technology innovations.
This talk outlined some of the challenges of identifying, implementing, and sustainably scaling social innovations to address global health and global development challenges, and considered agent based models (ABM) along with system dynamics (SD) models as two potential solutions.
The methods were considered within the context of identifying and evaluating social innovations for urban healthcare reform in China for migrant workers. Specific attention was given to the underlying heterogeneity and scale of human services needed across multiple sectors of care in
human services in China for migrant workers and fundamental population dynamics of migration and socio-economic development.
BIO: Peter Hovmand, PhD, is the founding director of the Brown School’s Social System Design Lab. He has a bachelor of science in electrical engineering and bachelor of arts in mathematics from Bucknell University. He received his masters in social work and interdisciplinary social science doctorate in social work and community psychology from Michigan State University. Dr. Hovmand’s research and practice focuses on using participatory group model building. Application areas include early child and maternal health, childhood obesity, energetics and cancer, mental health, domestic violence, child welfare, household economic security, structural racism, educational equity, and the implementation and scale-up of health innovations. Dr. Hovmand has conducted many group model building workshops domestically and internationally, including rural and urban India, Mongolia, United Kingdom, Canada, China, Panama, and the United States.
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