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Social Influences and Smoking Behavior
The objectives of this project were to conduct a comprehensive study of social influences on smoking behavior using an agent-based modeling approach. The results of the research can be divided into...
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Are We Born Prejudiced?
In the March 17, 2007 edition of New Scientist magazine, Mark Buchanan wrote extensively on Hammond's bringing to attention that humans have a deeply ingrained tendency to form groups. By better...
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Obesity and the Influence of Others
A much-publicized article in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that your chance of becoming obese is much higher if you have a close friend who is obese. Obesity appears to be socially...
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Exploring Price-Independent Mechanisms in the Obesity Epidemic
ABSTRACT Obesity is a rapidly growing epidemic in the United States and a major public health challenge worldwide. To counteract this epidemic effectively, better understanding of its mechanisms are...
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A Complex Systems Approach to Understanding and Reversing the Obesity Epidemic
CSED Fellow Ross A. Hammond recently gave a major address at the 2007 McGill Health Challenge Think Tank. This event brought together top international obesity experts—from academia, government,...
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A Complex Systems Approach to Understanding and Combating the Obesity Epidemic
This CSED Working Paper will be included in the forthcoming "Obesity Prevention" book. Abstract The obesity epidemic represents a major and rapidly growing public health challenge, in the United...
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Coupled Contagion Dynamics of Fear and Disease: Mathematical and...
Published version of the CSED October 2007 Working Paper ABSTRACT Background In classical mathematical epidemiology, individuals do not adapt their contact behavior during epidemics. They do not...
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Complex Systems Modeling for Obesity Research
ABSTRACT The obesity epidemic has grown rapidly into a major public health challenge, in the United States and worldwide. The scope and scale of the obesity epidemic motivate an urgent need for...
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H1N1 Containment: Economic Cost and Workforce Effects of School Closures
ABSTRACT School closure is an important component of U.S. pandemic flu mitigation strategy. The benefit is a reduction in epidemic severity through reduction in school-age contacts. However, school...
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The Scouting Report Web Chat: Flu Contagion in Schools
As the nation and the world continued to grapple with the H1N1 virus, school closures were one policy tool under consideration to slow spread of the pandemic. In the first comprehensive U.S. study of...
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The Scouting Report: Flu Contagion in Schools
Event Information October 21, 200912:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDTOnline OnlyThe Brookings InstitutionWashington, DC Register for the EventAs the nation and the world continue to grapple with H1N1, school...
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Systemic Risk in the Financial System: Insights from Network Science
Introduction The recent financial crisis was characterized by a rapid widespread destabilization of the financial system, with little apparent warning. The crisis has led to fresh attempts to...
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Ross Hammond to Lead Center on Social Dynamics and Policy
Ross Hammond will be the new director of the Center on Social Dynamics and Policy at Brookings, Strobe Talbott announced today. Hammond is currently a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at...
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The Economic Impact of Obesity in the United States
Abstract: Over the past several decades, obesity has grown into a major global epidemic. In the United States, more than two-thirds of adults are now overweight and one-third is obese. In this...
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Social Influence and Obesity
ABSTRACT Purpose of review: To review a selection of research published in the last 12 months on the role of social influence in the obesity epidemic. Recent findings: Recent papers add evidence to...
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A Systems-Based Typological Framework for Understanding the Sustainability,...
AbstractThis article proposes a systems-based framework to examine three structural dimensions of childhood obesity interventions that can impact intervention sustainability, scalability, and reach....
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Obesity, Prevention, and Health Care Costs
Follow @BICampaign2012 Editor's Note: For Campaign 2012, Alice Rivlin wrote a policy brief proposing ideas for the next president on America’s health care system. The following paper is a response to...
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Campaign 2012: The Future of Health Care
Event Information May 4, 20121:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDTFalk AuditoriumThe Brookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Ave., NWWashington, DC Register for the EventAs America confronts the realities of an aging...
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Getting Obesity Under Control: The Importance of a Systems Approach
New research focuses on the cause and spread of the obesity epidemic and just how difficult it will be to coordinate efforts to get it under control. The epidemic not only causes serious health...
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Next Steps in Obesity Prevention: Altering Early Life Systems To Support...
Summary The widespread and increasing prevalence of childhood obesity in America presents a critical public health challenge, prompting the Institute of Medicine to call for new “systems approaches”...
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