Informing Public Health Policies with Models for Disease Burden, Impact Evaluation, and Economic Evaluation

M Jit, AR Cook - Annual Review of Public Health, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Conducting real-world public health experiments is often costly, time-consuming, and
ethically challenging, so mathematical models have a long-standing history of being used to …

A call for citizen science in pandemic preparedness and response: beyond data collection

YR Tan, A Agrawal, MP Matsoso, R Katz… - BMJ Global …, 2022 - gh.bmj.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to partner with the community in
pandemic preparedness and response in order to enable trust-building among …

[HTML][HTML] Participatory mathematical modeling approach for policymaking during the first year of the COVID-19 crisis, Jordan

S Bellizzi, N Letchford, K Adib… - Emerging Infectious …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We engaged in a participatory modeling approach with health sector stakeholders in Jordan
to support government decision-making regarding implementing public health measures to …

[HTML][HTML] Participatory Modeling with Discrete-Event Simulation: A Hybrid Approach to Inform Policy Development to Reduce Emergency Department Wait Times

Y Tian, J Basran, J Stempien, A Danyliw, G Fast… - Systems, 2023 - mdpi.com
We detail a case study using a participatory modeling approach in the development and use
of discrete-event simulations to identify intervention strategies aimed at reducing emergency …

Participatory design research for the development of real-time simulation models in healthcare

A Harper, N Mustafee - Health Systems, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The implementation challenges for modelling and simulation in health and social care are
well-known and understood. Yet increasing availability of data and a better understanding of …

Leveraging artificial intelligence and participatory modeling to support paradigm shifts in public health: an application to obesity and evidence-based policymaking

PJ Giabbanelli, G MacEwan - Information, 2024 - mdpi.com
The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) of British Columbia suggested that a
paradigm shift from weight to well-being could address the unintended consequences of …

Navigating uncertainty: Radical rethinking for a turbulent world

I Scoones - 2024 - library.oapen.org
Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic
outbreaks or new technologies, we don't know what the future will hold. For many …

Case study of collaborative modeling in an indigenous community

GW McDonald, L Bradford, M Neapetung, ND Osgood… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
To support Indigenous communities in preparing for uncertainties such as climate change
impacts and unexpected threats to health, there are calls by researchers and community …

Towards digital justice: participatory action research in global digital health

SLM Davis - BMJ Global Health, 2022 - gh.bmj.com
DIGITAL HEALTH AND RIGHTS PROJECT The Digital Health and Rights Project (formerly
the Digital Health and Rights Advisory Group) was established in 2019, partly in response to …

Conceptualising the value of simulation modelling for public engagement with policy: a critical literature review

V Loblay, L Freebairn, JA Occhipinti - Health Research Policy and …, 2023 - Springer
As we face complex and dynamically changing public health and environmental challenges,
simulation modelling has come to occupy an increasingly central role in public …