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.

Assistant Professor of Practice
Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis

​Ellis Ballard, MPH, MSW is Director of the Social System Design Lab and Assistant Professor of Practice at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. His research and teaching focus on advancing participatory approaches to system dynamics modeling with communities to advance health access and social justice. As a researcher and consultant, Ballard works with community organizations, foundations, development banks, research teams, and corporations to build capabilities to develop system dynamics models for organizational strategy, research design, and advocacy.

Senior Analyst, Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network
Oregon Health & Science University

Erin Kenzie, PhD is a senior analyst at the Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network at Oregon Health & Science University, where her research focuses on applications of systems science methods to pragmatic research. She has a PhD in systems science from Portland State University and a background in the social and behavioral sciences.