Overview

 
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For over two decades, our team has been developing and utilizing computer maps, models and tools to assist a wide range of decision makers in health and public health.

 

Health and public health are very complex, involving systems of many different interrelated factors, people, relationships, processes, and issues. Different decisions and actions can then have reverberating secondary and tertiary effects, and even unintended consequences.

Our Symsilico team has extensive experience in academia and industry developing and utilizing computer approaches, methods, models and tools to help decision makers better understand and address these complex systems. Our members have international reputations in these areas, have published extensively in the scientific literature, and have had our work featured in numerous major media outlets.

Our Symsilico team includes expertise in mathematical and computational modeling, systems science, AI, data science, statistics, economics, informatics and operations research with domestic and international work spanning six of the seven continents. For more on the types of approaches, methods, model and tools that we develop and utilize, please see our capabilities page.


SYMSILCO workS IN a variety of sectors:

  • Biotech and Pharmaceuticals 

  • Governments and Government Agencies

  • Medical Devices and Equipment 

  • Insurance and Other Payers

  • Farming, Food Production and Manufacturing

  • Healthcare Services

  • Health Product Delivery 

  • Sports, Fitness and Wellness

Please see our sectors page for more information.


Examples of questions that we’ve addressed: 

What should be the design and characteristics of new technology?

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How should products be best used?

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What will be the impact of a new policy or intervention?

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How should decision making change under differing conditions and circumstances?

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Where should one invest or allocate resources?

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What is the most efficient way to deliver products and services?