ReThink Health Dynamics
Who’s Involved
BOBBY MILSTEIN I JACK HOMER I GARY HIRSCH I CHRISTINA INGERSOLL I JUSTIN TROGDON I LEIGH SCHERRER
ELLIOTT S. FISHER I JOHN STERMAN I KAREN MINYARD I RICHARD TURNER I TINA SMITH
Project Director:
Bobby Milstein, PhD, MPH, is Director of ReThink Health Dynamics, a project of ReThink Health, and Director of Systems Strategy and Programs for the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation. Dr. Milstein leads the ReThink Health Dynamics data-based model and game project that is working with regions and leaders across the country to develop interactive simulations that explore the likely impact of policy interventions on health outcomes and costs. He created the Hygeia Dynamics Policy Studio to provide a forum for diverse actors to acquire the foresight and motivation needed to craft powerful responses to pressing priorities and is also a visiting scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. From 1991 to 2011, Dr. Milstein worked at the CDC where he founded the Syndemics Prevention Network, chaired the agency’s Behavioral and Social Science Working Group, and was coordinator for a wide range of new initiatives. He was the principal architect of the CDC’s framework for program evaluation and published a monograph entitled, Hygeia’s Constellation: Navigating Health Futures in a Dynamic and Democratic World, recommended as “required reading for all health professionals.” Dr. Milstein is a co-founder of the annual NIH-CDC Institute on Systems Science and Health, and a co-developer of the HealthBound Policy Simulation Game as well as the Prevention Impacts Simulation Model.
Dynamic Modelers:
Jack Homer, PhD, is a system modeler for the ReThink Health Dynamics data-based model and game, a project of ReThink Health. Dr. Homer is a management consultant and System Dynamics simulation modeling expert. In 1997, he received the Jay W. Forrester Award from the International System Dynamics Society for best contribution to the field in the preceding five years. As part of a nine-person team, he received the 2008 inaugural Applied Systems Thinking Prize of the ASysT Institute for collaborative work on a problem of national significance (chronic disease and health policy). Since 1989, Dr. Homer has developed original models for a wide range of companies and public agencies including AT&T, Campbell Soup, CIGNA, Eastman Chemical, Ford Motor Co., Harley-Davidson, Mars, and Standard & Poor’s, the National Institute of Justice, the Departments of Health of Minnesota and Texas, the CDC, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Gary Hirsch, SB, SM, is a system modeler for the ReThink Health Dynamics data-based model and game, a project of ReThink Health. Mr. Hirsch specializes in applying System Dynamics and Systems Thinking. In health care, he has focused on population health and treatment of chronic illness, improving the performance of health care delivery systems, creating the capacity to respond to health emergencies, and improving oral health and delivering dental care. Mr. Hirsch is the co-developer of several simulation-based learning environments including HealthBound, created for the CDC to enable users to try their hand at health reform. Mr. Hirsch is the author of three books and numerous journal articles and conference presentations. He is President of the Metrowest Free Medical Program, an organization that provides care to people without health insurance. Mr. Hirsch holds SB and SM degrees from MIT’s Sloan School of Management with concentrations in System Dynamics and Public Sector Management.
Christina Ingersoll, MBA, is a system modeler for the ReThink Health Dynamics data-based model and game, a project of ReThink Health. Ms. Ingersoll is a graduate of the MIT Sloan MBA program where she was the first MBA recipient of the Sustainability Certificate in its inaugural year. Since graduating in 2010, Ms. Ingersoll has been working in curriculum development at MIT and also at the Harvard Kennedy School where she is on the teaching staff for the multi-institute sustainability science doctoral seminar. She is the co-developer of the Cool Farm Tool, a model for greenhouse gas emissions quantification at the farm level which is used as a decision support tool around the world.
Justin Trogdon, PhD, a system modeler for ReThink Health Dynamics, a project of ReThink Health, is a health economist in RTI International’s Public Health Economics Program. Dr. Trogdon’s current research includes methods for estimating the cost of disease with applications in obesity, chronic disease, cancer, and tobacco; program evaluation and cost-effectiveness studies; systems modeling of cardiovascular disease; and the impact of social networks on obesity. He has managed projects in these topics for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, and the American Heart Association. His technical expertise includes a variety of econometric and statistical methods, and his work has been published in many professional journals including the Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, and Health Services Research.
Pages: 1 2