Applied Systems Thinking for Health Systems and Public Health Research
Jointly organised by the Centre for Evaluation, the Health Systems Research Group at the GHD and the Centre for Global Chronic Conditions
Health systems are characterised by extraordinary complexity in relationships among stakeholders and the processes they create. Systems phenomena of massive interdependencies, organising and emergent behaviour, non-linearity and lagged feedback loops, path dependence and tipping points make health system behaviour difficult and sometimes impossible to predict or manage. Conventional reductionist approaches to public health and health systems research are inadequate for tackling the problems health systems pose. It is increasingly recognized that we need in public health a special set of approaches, methods and tools that derive from systems thinking perspectives.
This full day event at LSHTM examined various innovative systems thinking methodologies that can be used. The recordings from each session are available online.
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9.30 |
Welcome & Introduction |
Karl Blanchet |
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Session 1 – available to watch online here |
Chair: Dina Balabanova |
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9.40 |
System Thinking in Health Systems Research |
Don de Savigny |
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9.55 |
Complexity and Cynefin |
Dave Snowden |
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10.10 |
Complex systems approaches to public health research, policy, and practice |
Harry Rutter |
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10.25 |
Using qualitative methods in complex systems research |
Natalie Savona |
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10.40 |
Panel discussion |
All speakers |
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11.00 |
Coffee break |
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Session 2 – available to watch online here |
Chair: Jo Borghi |
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11.30 |
Soft systems methodology |
Kathy Kotiadis |
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11.45 |
Rapid appraisal methods which seek to capture complexity |
Dina Balabanova |
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12.00 |
Process re-engineering to manage complexity |
Don de Savigny |
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12.15 |
Developing systems thinking for health |
Martin Reynolds |
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12.30 |
Panel discussion |
All speakers |
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13.00 |
Lunch |
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Session 3 – available to watch online here |
Chair: Natalie Savona |
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14.00 |
Social network analysis |
Karl Blanchet |
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14.15 |
Causal mediation analysis |
Josephine Borghi |
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14.30 |
Mathematical methods for modelling complex dynamic systems |
Zaid Chalabi |
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14.45 |
Panel discussion |
All speakers |
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15. 15 |
Summing up |
Don de Savigny |
Admission
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