MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Jennifer Badham & Dr Ruth Hunter
- 👤 Speaker: Dr Jennifer Badham and Dr Ruth Hunter 🔗 Website
- 📅 Date & Time: Monday 18 January 2016, 13:00 - 14:00
- 📍 Venue: Meeting rooms, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC)
Abstract
Agent-based modelling (ABM) is becoming increasingly popular in public health. Applications include intervention development, understanding complex public health systems and evaluating the public health impact of public health interventions.
This seminar will introduce the opportunities for ABM in public health, describe how it can be useful for developing public health interventions and discuss some of the challenges.
SNAP (Social Networks and Physical Activity) is a public health intervention that utilises social networks (i.e. the connections between people) to promote physical activity. To optimise the way in which those connections are used, we are first building a simulation (SSNAP) using ABM to test different intervention designs.
The seminar will be of interest to public health interventionists, public health modellers and physical activity researchers.
Series This talk is part of the IMS Epidemiology Seminars series.
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- Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit Special Seminars
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Dr Jennifer Badham and Dr Ruth Hunter 
Monday 18 January 2016, 13:00-14:00