Program Schedule

THURSDAY, MARCH 21

 

Welcome Reception
USC Hotel, Teaching Garden
6:30 – 8:30 pm

FRIDAY, MARCH 22 

 

Breakfast
8:00 – 8:30 am

Opening Remarks
8:30 – 8:45 am

Session 1: Leveraging Network Structure for Intervention and Innovation
Session Chair: Noshir Contractor
8:45 – 10:15 am

Network Methods for Program Intervention and Implementation 
Thomas Valente, USC Keck School of Medicine

The Freest Among Us: The Science of Structural Intelligence
Damon Centola, University of Pennsylvania

Break
10:15 – 10:30 am

Session 2: Optimizing Public Serving Networks
Session Chair: Marlon Twyman II
10:30 – 12:00 pm

Institutional Interventions into Public Serving Networks
Michael Siciliano, University of Illinois at Chicago

Blockchain-enabled Translational Network Research to Advance
Health Equity in HIV Prevention and Beyond
Kayo Fujimoto, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Lunch
12:00 – 1:15 pm

Session 3: Engaging Participants Through Their Networks
Session Chair: Aimei Yang
1:15 – 2:45 pm

Using AI and Machine Learning to Advance our Understanding of Network Interventions
Eric Rice, University of Southern California

Combining Personal Network Visualizations and Motivational
Interviewing to Promote Behavior Change
David Kennedy, RAND

Break
2:45 – 3:00 pm

Session 4: Building Translational Network Tools
Session Chair: Lindsay Young
3:00 – 4:30 pm

Making the Social and Structural Drivers of Health Visible with
Network Canvas
Michelle Birkett, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Making Metrics Meaningful: Capturing SNA Data and Reporting Results
to Community Groups for Sensemaking and Action
Danielle Varda, Visible Networks Lab, University of Colorado Denver

Group Photo
4:30 – 4:45 pm

Reception (Vineyard Room)
4:45 – 5:15 pm

Keynote Address (Vineyard Room)
5:15 – 6:30 pm

Social Networks: Theory, Research, and Practice with Matchsticks,
Paperclips, and a Push
Bernice Pescosolido, University of Indiana Bloomington

Dinner Banquet (Vineyard Room)
6:30 – 8:00 pm

SATURDAY, MARCH 23

 

Breakfast

8:00 – 8:30 am

Session 5: Engaging Behavior-to-Policy Network Systems
Session Chair: Noshir Contractor
8:30 – 10:00 am

Layer by Layer: Unpacking Networks to Build Actionable Epidemic Models
Alessandro Vespignani, Northeastern University

Engaging Stakeholder Networks for ‘Whole-of-system’ Interventions
to Improve Community Health, Equity, and Sustainability
Kayla de la Haye, University of Southern California

Break
10:00 – 10:15 am

Session 6: Translating Social Advantage and Economic Resilience
Session Chair: Marlon Twyman II
10:15 – 11:45 am

Using Policy Questions to Guide Research on Social Capital Formation
Matthew Jackson, Stanford University

Behavior-based Dependency Networks Between Places Shape Urban
Economic Resilience
Esteban Moro, Northeastern University

Break
11:45 – 12:00 pm

Boxed Lunch and Panel Discussion
Moderator: Lindsay Young
12:00 – 1:15 pm

  Network Science for Transdisciplinary Research

 Christopher McCarty, University of Florida

 Jennifer Cross, Colorado State University

 Kayla de la Haye, University of Southern California

 Laura Koehly, National Human Genome Research Institute