Agent-Based Modelling and Public Health: An Introduction to the Proceedings of the 2023 Social Simulation Conference

This chapter provides an overview of and introduction to the proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference 2023. It contains a short intro to social simulation, to the theme of social simulation and public health and the papers accepted from the conference. As a maturing methodology, social simulation has made inroads into substantive disciplines. The conference had a particular focus on applications of social simulation in public health. Over the past decade public health research has embraced social simulation as a method to better understand the population effects of interventions, to model interactions between individual and socio-economic effects on health and to understand the role of social influence in health behaviours. This chapter gives a brief overview of social simulation, its application in public health and provides an overview of the proceedings papers.