Systems Science Research in Public Health (SysSci)

在我们的一生中，有许多不同的事情影响着我们的健康程度，以及我们的预期寿命。这些因素包括我们的基因、我们的行为，最重要的是，我们出生、成长、生活、工作和变老的社会、政治和环境条件。这些条件对每个人来说都不一样，富裕和不富裕的人在健康方面存在很大差异，平均而言，最富有的人比最贫穷的人健康寿命更长。我们的方案旨在了解决策者可以做些什么来帮助人们活得更健康、更长寿，以及我们如何解决贫富之间不公平的差距。系统科学是理解事物之间复杂关系以及它们如何随时间发展的方法和途径的集合。它经常用于自然科学，如理解生态系统或天气，但我们相信它也可以帮助我们理解社会、环境和政治条件（例如经济衰退、气候变化）如何影响健康和福祉。我们的方案将寻求培养一批具有必要主题和方法技能的研究人员，然后与研究伙伴和决策者合作，解决我们这个时代的主要挑战之一-我们如何能够更健康地生活得更久。

Many different things affect how healthy we are throughout our lives, and how long we can expect to live. These things include our genes, our behaviour and, most importantly, the social, political and environmental conditions in which we are born, grow up, live, work and age. These conditions are not the same for everyone and there are big differences in health between people who are well off and those who are not, and on average the richest live many more years in good health than the poorest. Our programme seeks to understand what policy makers can do to help people live healthier for longer, and how we can address the unfair gap between rich and poor. Systems science is a collection of methods and approaches for understanding complex relationships between things and how they develop over time. It is often used in the natural sciences such as for understanding eco systems or the weather, but we believe it can also help us understand how social, environmental and political conditions (for example economic recessions, climate change) influence health and wellbeing. Our programme will seek to develop a group of researchers with the necessary topic and methods skills and then work with research partners and policy makers to address one of the key challenges of our times – how we can live healthier for longer.