The Use of System Dynamics Modeling and Simulation to Address Complex Public Health Challenges

Research Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Nasim Sabounchi, PhD, MSc is a Research Associate Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy where she is also affiliated with the Center for Systems and Community Design (CSCD). She is an industrial and systems engineer, and a systems scientist in the field of public health and healthcare and recipient of the Systems Science Scholarship, Academy of Health - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her research interest involves adopting tools including systems science methodologies, systems engineering and data analytics to model complex systems and problems pertaining to health outcomes at both the individual and population levels. Dr. Sabounchi contributes to the advancement of system dynamics modeling and computer simulation for studying complex health and social systems and leads various projects in the domain of public health and health policy analysis including prevention of prescription misuse and opioid use, infectious disease, enhancing access to care for socio-economically disadvantaged populations, antibiotic resistance, Lyme Disease, HPV, and epidemics.