Caneystone is an affiliation of like-minded visionary professionals who employ systems thinking and use system dynamics tools to create computer simulations of complex problems.  The focus is complex problems impacting the interdependent health of humans, animals and the environment. 

 

Frequently such complex problems behave in a non-linear fashion. Computer simulation allows new policies and interventions to be tested to enhance understanding of how changes impact system behavior.  System structure, dependencies, delays, feedback loops, and tipping points that determine short and long term outcomes can be made explicit in a dynamic visual image.  This allows for collaboration among stakeholder and for strategies to be iteratively tested and refined before implementation in the real world.

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Areas of expertise include:  public health, livestock, crop and wildlife health, biodefense, economics, veterinary medicine and human medicine.  Innovation and preparedness lies at the nexus of these domains.  Multi-stakeholder collaborations across siloed disciplines can produce strategies and structures that facilitate integration, communication and collaboration to fuel powerful proactive health, safety and prosperity. 

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