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The Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is seeking a full-time, tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant or Associate Professor level with rank and salary commensurate with education and experience. We seek an innovative scholar with special interest and expertise in implementation science. The scholar’s background may be based in a wide range of dissemination, implementation, knowledge translation, and/or quality improvement sciences such as (but not restricted to): public health, health services research, psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, education, social sciences, systems science, organizational behavior, operations research, nursing, social work, or clinical sciences. We seek candidates in the field of implementation science, knowledge translation, or improvement science (quality improvement) who will focus on understanding, designing, and evaluating multilevel strategies to improve performance and/or improve the uptake of effective innovations in real-world health care settings with an eye towards impacting health care quality, safety, cost, outcomes, equity, and patient and provider experience. Successful candidates will apply dissemination and implementation frameworks combined with insights from multilevel stakeholders at the consumer, frontline provider, clinical manager, health system, community, and policy levels. In addition, successful candidates will conduct novel studies that develop, refine, and test different strategies to improve health care performance and/or improve the uptake and sustainment of effective innovations designed to impact health and health care across different settings (e.g., hospital networks, medical clinics, schools, community-based organizations)

The details for the Saturday and Wednesday sessions for 2021-22 are on the calendar .https://www.isss.org/calendar/

 

 

Dear Members

 

The ISSS 2021 Board Elections have begun on 15th July and you would have received an email in your mailbox. The voting closes on July 30th at 9 PM Pacific Time. We encourage you to cast your vote.

OECD published this in February 2020: New Approaches to Economic Challenges -  Systemic Thinking for Policy Making

In December 2018 ISSS started a regular Saturday meeting online using Bluejeans, now Zoom, for members to learn from each other. We now have two sessions to cover all times zones, Saturday and Monday.  They will resume in September after th ISSS Annual Meeting currently online.  Over the past 2 1/2 years we have collected over 150 recordings on various topics. I have begun to add some of the presentations on the website so anyone can view the presentation part of the sessions. You can view them here https://www.isss.org/saturday-presentations/

Topics include Developing an Integrative Framework for System Science with Gary Smith, An Assault on Situational Complexity with Alexander Christakis and Maria Kakoulaki, Time for Ethical Systems and Third Order Cybernetics with Mick Ashby, and several others. More will be coming over the next few months. To see the full history  of 150 sessions please become a member of ISSS at https://www.isss.org/register/

Dear members of ISSS,

 

Using the.model of the Saturday SIG Conversations started at the US by Deeanna Burleson last year we tried to establish a similar conversations from Australia to have similar gatherings at a time zone more convenient ot people in the Southern Hemisphere. Since we did not have many ISSS members in this part of the world we invited members of ANZSys Group that was established in 1999 who had been having annual conferences in Australia and New Zealand until 2012. In 2009 ISSS and ANZSys organised a conference together when Ockie Bosch was our President.

 

We were nio sure of numbers so we organized fortnightly conversations following the same protocol as the Saturday SIG group in October last year. The conversations have been popular and we have and about 12 to 13 participants each week and recently we had 19. The participants so far hacve been from Australia, New Zealand, US, South Africa and India. We had speakers from SSIW (Jamie Rose) and India (Raghav Rajagopalan). The conversations are continuing this year and last week we had ISSS President Delia MacNamara engage in a very interesting conversation about Artificial Intelligence.

 

 

Please visit the ANZsys website of theANZSys group (which has several ISSS members) at https://anzsys.org/index.php for recordings of our conversations and calendar of future presentations. We are thankful to ISSS's outreach to enable small groups like ANZSys have more  conversations about systems science, thinking and practice. Join us at the conversations.  They are free. Please send me an email if you want to register your name for announcements shankar.sankarna@uts.edu.au

 

Shankar Sankaran

Past President ISSS

 

Yesterday I listened to Nora Bateson talk about her book from 2016. Well worth the hour to listen. I ma listening to podcasts as I go for a walk for an hour in these covid times. I especially like the last chapter on "symmathesy". I would be interested in your comments.

Save the dates 8-13 July for the first ISSS online virtual conference and second online AGM. More details and info very sooon.

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