The Copenhagen Health Complexity Center is a forerunner in advancing the field of health complexity. The Center is dedicated to providing high-quality educational activities, courses, and training on health complexity and related fields to ensure the widespread adoption of systems approaches in public-health science.

 

PhD course: Introduction to Complex-Systems Approaches in Public Health

A comprehensive course that introduces complex-systems thinking in public health and presents the health-complexity framework for generating knowledge on complex health phenomena.

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In this course, PhD students will develop a foundational understanding of complex-systems approaches in the field of public health. The course emphasises the practical application of the health-complexity framework, which serves as a fundamental tool for conducting complexity research. The primary focus of the course is on understanding complex public-health problems while also providing a brief introduction to applying the framework in intervention research. 

By embracing a complex-systems approach and examining patterns along with their underlying mechanisms and dynamics, students will acquire skills in analysing complex health problems. They will use a systematic framework to generate interdisciplinary knowledge regarding these complexities. The course provides students with an introduction to various methodologies for exploring patterns in health data, including the utilisation of explainable artificial-intelligence techniques. Moreover, students will be introduced to systems methods, such as causal-loop diagrams, which are designed to capture the dynamic mechanisms that drive public-health issues. Students will also learn about simulation modeling using system dynamics, which enables an exploration of the dynamics of these problems and simulations of potential interventions. Ultimately, students will leverage their newly acquired knowledge to develop an outline of a research-grant proposal that addresses a specific public-health problem of their choosing.

 

The course will be held 19–23 May 2025, and is offered annually. Please visit PhD courses in Denmark to register.

 

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PhD course: Quantitative Bias Analysis for Epidemiological Research
This course covers simple and multidimensional bias analysis methods that can be used to gain a better understanding of the impact of unmeasured confounding, selection bias, and a misclassification of study results. Link