Executive Director, Global Obesity Prevention Center
Associate Professor, Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Presentation Abstract
Title: Systems Approaches and Methods for Health Equity
Everyone in society ultimately is connected to one another via complex systems. Therefore, when people within a population face particular health challenges, ultimately everyone is affected in many complex ways. Moreover, many health challenges, especially those that disproportionately affect certain groups, are the result of broken systems, whether they are biological, behavioral, social, environment, economic, or other types of systems. Unaided, it can be challenging for decision makers to understand and address these complex systems. Therefore, decision makers and others could benefit from the use of various systems approaches, methods, and tools. Systems approaches and methods have transformed decision-making in other fields such as meteorology, air traffic control, and transportation and could similarly transform decision making in health and health care.
About Dr. Lee
Bruce Y. Lee is Associate Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Executive Director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center, and Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. Dr. Lee has 2 decades of experience in industry and academia in systems science, digital health, and developing and implementing mathematical and computational methods, models, and tools to assist decision making in public health, health, and medicine.
His previous positions include serving as Senior Manager at Quintiles Transnational, working in biotechnology equity research at Montgomery Securities, co-founding of Integrigen, and serving as an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he founded PIHCOR (Public Health Computational and Operations Research).
Dr. Lee has authored over 200 scientific publications (including over 100 first author and over 75 last author) as well as three books. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Vaccine and Deputy Editor for PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Dr. Lee is a regular contributor to Forbes and has also written for a range of other general media including Time, The Guardian, HuffPost, and the MIT Technology Review. His work and expertise have appeared in leading media outlets such as the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, CBS News, Businessweek, U.S. News and World Report, Bloomberg News, Reuters, and NPR.
Dr. Lee did not disclose any conflicts of interest for this workshop.