David Blok

David Blok is an Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and affiliated with Erasmus MC Public Health. He leads research at the Erasmus Movez Lab, focusing on systems approaches to health behavior. His work combines agent-based modeling, AI, and participatory systems mapping to study health behaviors in social networks.

He holds a PhD from Erasmus University (2018) with a dissertation titled Introducing systems approaches to health behavioral research. His research addresses income inequalities in health behaviors, social network influences on smoking cessation, and leveraging web-based communication data for health interventions.

Key research themes include:

• Complex systems methodologies
• Agent-based modeling applications in public health
• Social network analysis for behavior change
• AI-driven health interventions

Recent publications emphasize agent-based modeling for understanding health disparities and optimizing interventions. His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to reducing inequalities and promoting health.

He collaborates internationally on topics like disease elimination strategies and social determinants of health behaviors.