What's Next Health
May 15, 2013 | Feature
What's Next Health: Conversations with Pioneers features leading thinkers and visionaries helping us explore ideas and trends important to the future of health and health care.
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Introducing What’s Next Health: Conversations with Pioneers
May 15, 2013 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
We're pleased to introduce What’s Next Health: Conversations with Pioneers, a new series here at RWJF that explores the future of health and health care, asks the big questions, and looks to the cutting-edge for solutions.
Network Analysis
August 14, 2012 | Book
Published in Handbook of Research Methods in Religious Studies
The False Dichotomy of Nature Versus Nurture
December 14, 2011 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
We all attribute certain traits to nurture and others to nature. “I’m stubborn. I get that from my dad’s side. My ambition and leadership skills? I learned those.” But Pioneer grantee Nicholas A. Christakis says more of the traits we typically attri ...
Dynamic Social Networks Promote Cooperation in Experiments with Humans
November 29, 2011 | Journal Article
Frequently updating social networks can support cooperation in large groups.
Dynamic Social Networks Promote Cooperation in Experiments with Humans
November 29, 2011 | Journal Article
Human interactions are not random but rather are structured in social networks, and ties in these networks are often dynamic, changing in response to the behavior of one’s social partners. This structure permits an important form of conditional acti ...
Social Network Concordance in Food Choice Among Spouses, Friends, and Siblings
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
People are highly influenced by what the people in their social network eat.
How Our Friends (and Our Friends' Friends) Influence Our Health
September 1, 2011 | Story
A Profile of Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH
The Use of Twitter to Track Levels of Disease Activity and Public Concern in the US During the Influenza A H1N1 Pandemic
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
During the H1N1 outbreak, the authors of this study monitored disease activity by analyzing public messages, "tweets," on the social networking site Twitter. The study established a model for monitoring disease outbreaks in real time.
Predicting a Pandemic
January 1, 2011 | Report
Learn how harnessing the power of prediction markets could offer public health officials and policy-makers a valuable tool in protecting public health.