In 2023, Washington University in St. Louis proudly hosted the fourth annual SSSI from July 31 to August 4, 2023. A group of 29 doctoral students, fellows, researchers, and community partners from across the U.S. and the world joined together for training in systems science and its applications for social impact. Participants came from as far as Australia, Chile, and Luxembourg to join us in St. Louis.
The Institute was a 5-day program that offered in-depth systems science methods training for health and social science scholars. Participants received training in either agent-based modeling, group model building, system dynamics, or social network analysis.
Participants learned about major systems science concepts and analytic best practices, and applied the methods to their own real-world data.