How can games help key stakeholders better understand complex concepts and data in human health

游戏提供了一种交互媒体，允许将复杂的信息传达给不同的观众。这对科学、健康教育和政策制定具有广泛的影响。有先例提出，一个了解真实公共卫生数据的游戏可能能够帮助关键利益攸关方更好地模拟、理解和解决公共卫生问题。这些利益相关者包括制定公共卫生假说的科学家、作为健康教育活动目标的非专业人群，以及寻求了解不同健康和社会因素如何相互作用并模拟政策可能如何影响它们的政策制定者。这一博士学位将建立在Jean Golding研究所和MRC综合流行病学单位(IEU)资助的一个项目的基础上，该单位设计了一个将复杂的健康数据转化为互动游戏的平台。在接下来的三年里，我将测试这个平台对不同利益攸关方的有用性，并评估促进对复杂健康数据的理解的最佳方法。

Games provide an interactive medium that allows complex information to be communicated to diverse audiences. This has wide implications for science, health education and policy making. There is precedent to propose that a game for understanding real public health data may be able to help key stakeholders to better simulate, understand and resolve public health issues. These stakeholders include scientists developing hypotheses about public health, the lay population, who are targets of health education campaigns, as well as policy makers who seek to understand how different health and social factors interact and to simulate how policies may affect them. This PhD will build upon a project funded by the Jean Golding Institute and the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU), which has designed a platform for turning complex health data into an interactive game. Over the next three years, I will testthe usefulness of this platform for different stakeholders and evaluate the best methods for promoting the understanding of complex health data.