Health Policy SIG October Meeting

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October Health Policy SIG: Bobby Milstein – Connecting Models and Movements
October 10 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT

DESCRIPTION: Our well-being relies on a system that is not built for everyone to thrive. But even systems fraught with racism and other forms of injustice can be transformed through shared stewardship. Over the last decade, the Rippel Foundation’s ReThink Health Initiative has developed a suite of dynamic maps and models that have had significant influence across a wide range of organizations in philanthropy, healthcare, academia, business, government, as well as multisector partnerships and nationwide networks. The SD Society honored this body of work with the 2023 SD Applications Award. In this dialogue, ReThink Health’s director of system strategy (Bobby Milstein) will share stories and answer questions about how their team designs SD tools to connect models and movements. Some topics we could cover include…

Curating a family of flexible models that can be configured for local conditions
Paying attention to what’s in the model vs. what’s in the room
Assembling teams with complementary skills (strategists, dynamic modelers, subject matter experts, experience designers, evaluators, educators, etc.)
Others…


SPEAKER: Bobby Milstein (Director of System Strategy, ReThink Health, Rippel Foundation; Visiting Scientist, MIT Sloan School of Management

Bobby Milstein, PhD, MPH, works with innovators who see themselves — and others — as interdependent stewards in a movement for well-being and justice. He serves as Director of System Strategy for the Rippel Foundation and its ReThink Health initiative, as well as a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. With an educational background that combines cultural anthropology, behavioral science, and systems science, he helps organize efforts to spark large-scale institutional and cultural change. Bobby was lead editor of the Thriving Together Springboard, is a member of the National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, co-founder of the Well Being in the Nation (WIN) Network, and an invited contributor to the National Academies’ consensus study on Racial, Ethnic, and Tribal Health Equity as well as the Surgeon General’s Report on Community Health and Economic Prosperity. Bobby is a frequent design consultant for new endeavors that advance the dynamic and democratic frontiers of shared stewardship. Previously, Bobby spent 20 years planning and evaluating system-oriented initiatives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he was the principal architect of CDC’s framework for program evaluation. He received CDC’s Honor Award for Excellence in Innovation, the Applications Award from the System Dynamics Society, the President’s Prize from the American Evaluation Association, as well as Article of the Year awards for papers published in Health Affairs and Health Promotion Practice.

ReThink Health’s System Dynamics Team

Bobby Milstein
Jack Homer
Chris Soderquist
Gary Hirsch
Rebecca Niles
Kris Wile
Elliott Fisher
John Sterman
Links to Dynamic Models

ReThink Health’s Dynamic Models
Selected Publications

Health System Dynamics
Combined Regional Investments Could Substantially Enhance Health System Performance And Be Financially Affordable. Health Affairs. 2016 August 8;35(8):1435-43.
Well-Being Dynamics
How Can a Community Pursue Equitable Health and Well-Being after a Severe Shock? Ideas from an Exploratory Simulation Model. Systems. 2022;10(5):158.
Organizing Around Vital Conditions Moves the Social Determinants Agenda into Wider Action. Health Affairs Forefront. 2023 February 2.
Which Priorities for Health and Well-Being Stand Out After Accounting for Tangled Threats and Costs? The Milbank Quarterly. 2020 February 6:1-27.
Community and Programmatic Factors Influencing Effective Use of System Dynamic Models System Dynamics Review. System Dynamics Review. 2018 August 28.

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https://systemdynamics.org/