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SUMMARY:MRC Epidemiology / CEDAR Seminar: Dr Jennifer Badham &amp\; Dr Rut
 h Hunter - Dr Jennifer Badham and Dr Ruth Hunter
DTSTART:20160118T130000Z
DTEND:20160118T140000Z
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CONTACT:Paul Browne
DESCRIPTION:Agent-based modelling (ABM) is becoming increasingly popular i
 n public health. Applications include intervention development\, understan
 ding complex public health systems and evaluating the public health impact
  of public health interventions.\n\nThis seminar will introduce the opport
 unities for ABM in public health\, describe how it can be useful for devel
 oping public health interventions and discuss some of the challenges.\n\nS
 NAP (Social Networks and Physical Activity) is a public health interventio
 n that utilises social networks (i.e. the connections between people) to p
 romote physical activity. To optimise the way in which those connections a
 re used\, we are first building a simulation (SSNAP) using ABM to test dif
 ferent intervention designs.\n\nThe seminar will be of interest to public 
 health interventionists\, public health modellers and physical activity re
 searchers.
LOCATION:Meeting rooms\, Level 4 Institute of Metabolic Sciences\, Addenbr
 ooke’s Treatment Centre (ATC)
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