UBC is first WHO Collaborating Centre

Issue: BCMJ, vol. 55, No. 3, April 2013, Pages 140-141 News

The World Health Organization has designated the Division of Mathematical Modeling at the UBC Centre for Disease Control as the first WHO Collaborating Centre dedicated to bringing together complexity science and health systems decision making.

Complexity science is a field that studies the many interacting parts within the systems of nature, society, and science. Work at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Complexity Science for Health Systems (CS4HS) aims to apply complexity science in health systems to develop new decision-support tools to address serious global health issues. 

CS4HS will also provide training opportunities for scholars, health practitioners, and trainees from low-, middle-, and high-income countries, and play an important role in knowledge translation to help bridge the gap between science and policy.

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