The second symposium of the four-part series on systems science and health:

Network Analysis: Using Connections and Structures to Understand and Change Health Behaviors

Katherine Faust, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
 University of California, Irvine
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*Due to the file sizes, the Faust presentation is being posted in three parts:
Presentation - Part# 1
Presentation - Part# 2
Presentation - Part# 3


Thomas W. Valente, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Institute for Prevention Research
Department of Preventive Medicine

University of Southern California
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*Due to the file sizes, the Valente presentation is being posted in three parts:
Presentation - Part# 1
Presentation - Part# 2
Presentation - Part# 3
 

TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2007

 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Natcher Center, Main Auditorium
45 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

Directions to the Natcher Center: http://www.nih.gov/about/directions.htm

Webcast at: http://videocast.nih.gov

Description of the talks:

Dr. Faust will present a non-technical overview of methods used to analyze networks, with an emphasis on social networks.   Topics include: formal representations of social networks (graphs and sociomatrices), social network data considerations, and methods for analyzing social networks (connectivity, centrality, cohesive subgroups, equivalences and blockmodels, subgraphs, and structural hypotheses).  Dr. Valente will describe methods for using network analysis to elucidate the antecedents and consequences of health-related behaviors.  To do this, he will draw from a number of examples of his applied work in the areas of substance abuse prevention and treatment, contraceptive choices, and community coalitions among others.  He will also describe how applied research utilizing network analysis methods can be used to stimulate improvement in individual, community and organizational behavior change programs. Prior experience with or exposure to network methods is not assumed.

Mark Your Calendars for upcoming symposia in this series:

• Agent Based Modeling: Population Health From the Bottom Up.  Joshua M. Epstien, Ph.D. (The Brookings Institution) and  Michael Macy, Ph.D. (Cornell University). Friday, July 13, 2007 10 :00 A M – 12 :00 p.m.  Natcher Center, Balcony , 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.

         System Dynamics Modeling for Population Health. Jack Homer, Ph.D. (Homer Consulting) and George Richardson, Ph.D. (University at Albany - State University of New York).  Thursday, August 30, 2007, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.  Natcher Center, Main Auditorium, 45 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892

In case you missed the first symposium in the series:

• Systems Methodologies for Solving Real-World Problems:  Applications in Public Health  John Sterman, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Kenneth McLeroy, Ph.D. (Texas A&M University).  March 22, 2007.  The videocast is archived at:  http://videocast.nih.gov see “Past Events” – “Special”.  Podcast at:  http://videocast.nih.gov/podcasting

Sponsorship
This series is sponsored by the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and CDC’S Syndemics Prevention Network with support from the following NIH components:  Division of Nutrition Research Coordination, Fogarty International Center, National Institute for Childhood Health and Human Development, National Institute for General Medical Sciences, and the National Cancer Institute.