Translating systems thinking into public health innovations
The impact of interventions for obesity and chronic disease has often been limited because these interventions tend to take a compartmentalised approach rather than tackle the complexity of the problems directly.
Insights from systems science have the potential to inform the design of public health interventions and enhance their implementation and dissemination. Systems thinking can also transform the ways in which public health engages communities and the public to address pressing public health challenges and health disparities.
Professor Huang will give an introduction to systems thinking, discuss ways to integrate top-down and bottom-up approaches to public health, and conclude with some ideas for how to evaluate systems interventions.