Systems Thinking and Evidence-Based Global Health Policy: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health Research, with Tarra Penney

Food insecurity, the emergence of zoonoses, anti-microbial resistance, and the related consequences of climate change are all major global health challenges, many with common drivers.

Global health policy is an essential instrument for our collective efforts to reorient systems and address the underlying causes of these shared global health challenges. 

As global health researchers we want to ensure policy is informed by robust empirical evidence, but also that our approach has relevance and legitimacy – motivating us to think differently about how we do global health research. 

By drawing on experience conducting systems focused collaborative research, this seminar will reflect on how the use of systems methods and approaches may enable us ask and answer questions that inform system change.

Register below and join us on Wednesday, October 30, at 1 p.m. ET

Speaker Profile

Dr Penney is a population health scientist focused on the prevention of disease at the global level. She is an associate professor of Global Food Systems and Policy Research, an investigator with the Global Strategy Lab and a faculty member of the Dahdaleh institute for Global Health Research at York University. Dr Penney completed her PhD and Postdoctoral training in epidemiology and preventive medicine at the MRC Epidemiology Unit and School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, UK. By engaging in highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary, systems focused research, Dr. Penney seeks to support evidence-informed global health policy that is fit to tackle some of our greatest global challenges.

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