Bringing ALife and Complex Systems Science to Population Health Research

Bringing science to art

Several important books in recent years have examined the neuroscience of single art forms, including Zeki’s Inner Vision [1], Livingstone’s Vision and Art [2], and Peretz and Zatorre’s anthology The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music [3]. Dahlia Zaidel’s recent book is an attempt to look beyond single art forms and develop a broader and more integrative view of the arts and of human creativity. T...

NetSci High: Bringing Network Science Research to High Schools

We present NetSci High, our NSF-funded educational outreach program that connects high school students who are underrepresented in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics), and their teachers, with regional university research labs and provides them with the opportunity to work with researchers and graduate students on team-based, yearlong network science research projects, culmina...

Bringing a Systems Approach to Health

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

Bringing Science to Cancer Therapy

For the vast majority of patients, a diagnosis of cancer triggers fundamentally the same course of therapy as it has for the past 40 to 50 years: surgery (when possible), followed by treatment with noxious chemotherapeutic agents. Certainly, there has been steady improvement in the effectiveness of these therapies and accordingly in the prognoses associated with many cancers. Yet all too often ...