{
  "abstract": "Despite many scholars having been ‘thinking in systems’ for centuries, the global scientific community recognises the establishment of systems thinking as a formal discipline in the late 1950s, when system dynamics modelling was first introduced in the field of engineering management, 1 to subsequent application in physics and ecology in the 1970s2 and in organisational management thereafter.3–5 Since then, the discipline has expanded to use in virtually all fields, from economics to ecology,6–8 and started gaining attention in global health in the early 2000s, when the British Medical Journal published a series centred around complexity science application to health systems research,9 10 echoed in the following years by increasing calls for the adoption of systems thinking in public health.11 After the publication of the flagship report of the WHO Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research ‘Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening’ in 2009,12 systems thinking has seen an expansion of its adoption in global health, particularly in health policy and systems research.13",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "CRIMEDIM - Center for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid and Global Health, University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro School of Medicine, Novara, Piemonte, Italy"
      ],
      "name": "Claudia Truppa"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Stockholm, Sweden"
      ],
      "name": "Abeer S Ahmad"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden"
      ],
      "name": "Katrine J Chamorro De Angeles"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London, UK"
      ],
      "name": "Amanda Quintana"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "KPM Center for Public Management, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland",
        "Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine, Bern, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Rachel Cassidy"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland",
        "University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Anna Duchenko"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland",
        "University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Carmen Sant Fruchtman"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland",
        "University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Daniel Cobos Muñoz"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Study, University of Geneva Faculty of Medicine, Geneve, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Karl Blanchet"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden",
        "Karolinska Institute Department of Global Public Health, Stockholm, Sweden"
      ],
      "name": "Dell Saulnier"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Bandim Health Project, Research Unit OPEN, University of Southern Denmark Department of Clinical Research, Odense, Syddanmark, Denmark",
        "Bandim Health Project, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau"
      ],
      "name": "Sabine Margarete Damerow"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Systems thinking in global health: are we targeting the right people? Insights from the launch of the SYSTAC Europe Forum",
  "uid": "615eeaad-2bec-5fb1-861b-11a1792d7447"
}