The Health Systems Impact Modelling project
This community of practice emerges from a larger programme of work supported by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research at WHO, with funding from The Gates Foundation. Read more
Organizations, initiatives and websites
Discover key groups and platforms working in health systems modelling. This section shares organizations, projects, and websites that support learning, collaboration, and the use of modelling to strengthen health systems around the world. Do you have suggestions for other organisations, initiatives and websites about health systems impact modelling that we could feature on this page? If so we’d love to hear from you.
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Website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jameel-institute/
Focus: Epidemiology, mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, environmental health, health economics
Key activities:
- COVID-19 pandemic modelling that influenced UK and US government policies
- DAEDALUS integrated economic-epidemiological model for optimizing economic sectors during health emergencies
- Kenneth C. Griffin Initiative for the Economics of Pandemic Preparedness
- Research areas: Strengthening health systems, responding to health emergencies, building partnerships and capacity
Website: https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/
Focus: Decision science methods applied to health policy and medical practice
Key activities:
- Teaching core decision science courses (decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis)
- Health Systems Innovation Lab for comparative health systems research
- Research on health disparities, medical impoverishment, financial risk protection
Website: https://www.idmod.org/
Focus: Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and health systems to support global health improvements
Key activities:
- Quantitative methodologies for maternal/child health, health delivery strategies, and health system effectiveness
- Transmission dynamics modelling for malaria, measles, polio, TB, HIV, pneumonia, typhoid, COVID-19
- Development of open-source modelling tools shared as global public goods
- Data-driven approaches including dynamic models, statistical analysis, and innovative algorithms
- Development of open-source modelling tools shared as global public goods
- Data-driven approaches including dynamic models, statistical analysis, and innovative algorithms
Website: https://www.healthdata.org/
Focus: Population health research with comprehensive measurement of global health problems
Key activities:
- Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study – comprehensive mortality and disability data across countries
- COVID-19 pandemic modelling that informed US government guidelines
- Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) platform for health datasets
Website: https://iiasa.ac.at/
Focus: Applied systems analysis for global problems
Key activities:
- GAINS model for air quality and health impacts
- Population and demographic modelling
- Food and land use systems (FABLE Consortium)
- Integrated assessment of climate-health interactions
Website: https://hbhi.jhu.edu/initiatives/chspm
Focus: U.S. health care system analysis using predictive models and causal inference
Key activities:
- To become a definitive source of information on health sector policy levers
Website: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/
Key activities:
- Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID) – 150+ researchers in epidemiology, mathematics, economics, statistics
- Health Systems and Policy Unit – Macro-economic modelling of health and health policy
- Environment and Health Modelling Lab – Statistical methods for climate-health interactions
- Notable projects: COSMIC project using system dynamics for health programme evaluation
Website: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/centers-initiatives/health-systems-initiative
Focus: Healthcare operations research and analytics
Key activities:
- Healthcare Operations – hospital optimization, supply chains, transportation
- Healthcare Analytics – machine learning tools for diagnostics and decision support
- Healthcare Incentives – economic models for healthcare delivery
Website: https://www.path.org/
Focus: Global health systems strengthening through evaluation and implementation
Key activities:
- Global Fund Prospective Country Evaluation (with IHME) in 8 countries
- Mixed-methods evaluation combining qualitative process evaluation with quantitative impact analysis
- Africa Health R&D Commitments Tracker for investment transparency
- Findings: 37% of Global Fund Round 8 allocated to health systems strengthening
Website: https://www.swisstph.ch
Focus: Systems innovation research
Key activities:
- Strengthening mortality systems to inform health policy
- WHO Collaborating Center for Verbal Autopsy
- Health sector response to violence against women and girls (VAWG)
- Computational modeling of cardiovascular risk interventions simulator, São Paulo, Brazil
Website: https://thanzi.org/
Focus: Health systems modelling and health economics in African regions
Key activities:
- Evidence generation for locally relevant health systems research
- Capability building in health economics and health system modelling
- Direct engagement with Ministry of Health and Finance planning departments
- Research led by local and regional demand across East, Central, Southern and West Africa
Website: https://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/
Focus: Training mathematical modellers for global health decision-making
Key activities:
- Mathematical and economic modelling
- Scientific programming and bioinformatics
- Global health financing
- Spatial analysis and model fitting
- Research areas: Infectious diseases, cancer, immunology, vaccinology
Focus: Mathematical simulation models for health and financial outcomes of public health policies
Key activities:
- Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analytics (CIDMA)
- Quantitative evaluation of vaccination strategies and health interventions
