The CECAN team would like to extend thanks to Professor Brian Castellani from the Complexity in Health and Infrastructure Group at Kent State University USA, for his engaging discussions on case-based approaches to addressing complexity in nexus issues at his seminar on 23rd February 2017.
Trained as a clinical psychologist, methodologist and sociologist, Brian has spent the past ten years developing a new case-based approach to modeling complex social systems, which he and his colleagues have used to help practitioners and policy makers address and improve complex public health issues such as community wellbeing, stress and coping (allostatic load), comorbid depression in primary care, addiction, medical education and grid reliability.
Drawing upon two recent studies – one on health trajectories and the other on grid reliability – Brian demonstrated how evaluation researchers can use case-based complexity to more effectively model nexus issues across time/space and showcased a new Case-based Complexity App that Brian and colleagues have developed and are keen to share.
You can watch the filmed version of his seminar and download the accompanying slides.