September 30, NetSci Speaker Series Talk Featuring Thomas W. Valente, PhD
Network Models of and for Behavior Change
Thomas W. Valente, PhD
Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Valente will open with a review of the many structural ways that social networks influence individual behaviors. He then presents what is known about network methods for program implementation and focuses on network interventions. He then describes how to select the appropriate network intervention and reviews existing evidence on their effectiveness. Results of empirical experiments and studies spanning 25 years are interspersed throughout including adolescent substance use; clinical practices; prescribing behavior, organizational change, among others.
Valente is the author of Social Networks and Health: Models, Methods, and Applications (2010, Oxford University Press); Evaluating Health Promotion Programs (2002, Oxford University Press); Network Models of the Diffusion of Innovations (1995, Hampton Press); and over 235 articles and chapters on social networks, behavior change, and program evaluation. Valente is currently working on specifications for analyzing network models of diffusion and contagion with the R package NetdiffuseR. He is also well-known for his work developing network models of program implementation and network interventions. Valente has received numerous university, national, and international awards. Valente earned his BS in Mathematics from the University of Mary Washington, his MS in Mass Communication from San Diego State University, and his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at USC. From 1991 to 2000 he was at the Bloomberg School of Public Health; in 2008, he was a visiting senior scientist at NIH (NHGRI) for 6 months; and in 2010-2011 he was a visiting Professor at the École des Haute Études en Santé Publique (Paris/Rennes). Valente is co-editor (with Martin Everett) of Social Networks.
Network Models of and for Behavior Change
Thomas W. Valente, PhD
Department of Population and Public Health Sciences
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Valente will open with a review of the many structural ways that social networks influence individual behaviors. He then presents what is known about network methods for program implementation and focuses on network interventions. He then describes how to select the appropriate network intervention and reviews existing evidence on their effectiveness. Results of empirical experiments and studies spanning 25 years are interspersed throughout including adolescent substance use; clinical practices; prescribing behavior, organizational change, among others.
Valente is the author of Social Networks and Health: Models, Methods, and Applications (2010, Oxford University Press); Evaluating Health Promotion Programs (2002, Oxford University Press); Network Models of the Diffusion of Innovations (1995, Hampton Press); and over 235 articles and chapters on social networks, behavior change, and program evaluation. Valente is currently working on specifications for analyzing network models of diffusion and contagion with the R package NetdiffuseR. He is also well-known for his work developing network models of program implementation and network interventions. Valente has received numerous university, national, and international awards. Valente earned his BS in Mathematics from the University of Mary Washington, his MS in Mass Communication from San Diego State University, and his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at USC. From 1991 to 2000 he was at the Bloomberg School of Public Health; in 2008, he was a visiting senior scientist at NIH (NHGRI) for 6 months; and in 2010-2011 he was a visiting Professor at the École des Haute Études en Santé Publique (Paris/Rennes). Valente is co-editor (with Martin Everett) of Social Networks.