Associate Professor Jo-An Occhipinti (née Atkinson)
A/Professor Occhipinti is Head of Systems Modelling and Simulation at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre. She was also the Founding Director of Decision Analytics at The Sax Institute. She has experience in leading transdisciplinary teams that work at the intersection of systems science, data science and health sciences to improve the health and wellbeing of populations through the development of interactive decision-support tools. Over the past 6 years, A/Professor Occhipinti and her team have developed over 30 complex systems models to inform decision making, having been commissioned by health departments, service planners and commercial entities to develop decision-support tools to forecast the impact of alternative decision options before they are implemented in the real world; saving both time and resources. A/Prof. Occhipinti works in partnership with government departments, policy agencies, program planners and researchers in health and social sectors, and implements a participatory systems modelling approach for research and to inform health policy and planning.