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3. Sociobehavioral and Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) models: network, probabilistic, stochastic models

MSM lead: Elsje Pienaar, Kyoko Yoshida, Jason Haugh; IMAG lead: Julia Berzhanskaya, Asif Rizwan

Primary Questions:

• How do we move forward from current IMAG initiatives (Plenary Session 2.1)?
• How do we move forward from what was discussed in Plenary Session 2.3?
• How do we bridge cellular/tissue/organ models with population models?

Round 1: 12:15-1pm - Asif, Scribe

Sociobehavioral - Bruce, moderator

SDoH - Elsje, moderator

Round 2: 1pm - Julia, Scribe

Sociobehavioral - Bruce, moderator

SDoH - Kyoko, moderator

Discussion Questions:

• How do we move forward from current IMAG initiatives (Plenary Session 2.1)?
  • How can SDoH and Sociobehavioral mechanisms be integrated into current IMAG initiatives to address health inequities?
  • What is the state of current modeling efforts in Sociobehavioral modeling and SDoH?
• How do we move forward from what was discussed in Plenary Session 2.3?
  • What can we learn from other fields that already incorporate SDoH and policy advocacy in their work?
  • What funding mechanisms exist (or need to be developed) to support the MSM community to work in SDoH and sociobehavior areas?
• How do we bridge cellular/tissue/organ models with population models?
  • What are the mechanisms involved and how are they represented?
  • How do we identify, prepare and collect/restructure data to represent SDoH?
  • What are the challenges to collaborating with experts in sociobehavioral and SDoH fields?

Concrete Next Steps:

• recommendations: identified gaps and opportunities
• review paper
• webinars
• new WGs

Resources:

Health Equity Modeling Resources

NIH BRAIN Initiative: BBQS