Complexity and health

  • Plexus Institute is a nonprofit social enterprise that supports change agents in all kinds of organizations and communities. The institute wants to foster the health of individuals, families, communities, organizations and our natural environment by helping people use concepts emerging from the new science of complexity.
  • Boids is an example of an individual-based model, a class of simulation used to capture the global behaviour of a large number of interacting autonomous agents. Individual-based models are being used in biology, ecology, economics and other fields of study.
  • Centre for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences is dedicated to understanding the principles and mechanisms that underlie complex behavior. From the microscopic level of cells and organelles to the grand scale of human interaction, their mission is to bring together multiple disciplines to tackle the most intriguing questions about the brain, the mind, consciousness, and behavior.
  • Centre for Self-Organizing Leadership is a not-for-profit educational centre that helps leaders learn to effectively lead transformative organizational change.
  • Emergence-Complexity and Organization is an international and interdisciplinary conversation about human organizations as complex systems and the implications of complexity science for those organizations.
  • Margret & H.A. Rey Institute for Non-Linear Dynamics in Medicine is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The laboratory is affiliated with Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences & Technology.
  • PhysioNet offers free web access to large collections of recorded physiologic signals (PhysioBank) and related open-source software (PhysioToolkit). Each month, about 45,000 visitors worldwide use PhysioNet, retrieving about four terabytes of data.
  • Positive Deviance Initiative is based on the observation that in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviours and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than their peers, while having access to the same resources and facing similar or worse challenges.
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation wants to improve the health and health care of all Americans through the provision of information.