Peter S. Hovmand

Peter S. Hovmand is the Pamela B. Davis MD PhD Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine and a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering. He serves as Center Director of the Division of General Medical Sciences at the Center for Community Health Integration. His roles also include Secondary Faculty positions in the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, as well as membership in the Population and Cancer Prevention Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Dr. Hovmand is renowned for pioneering participatory system dynamics methodologies in public health and medicine. His research focuses on structural violence, equity in policy/practice, and bias mitigation in AI/ML. He founded the Social System Design Lab at Washington University (2009–2020), authored Community Based System Dynamics, and co-created Scriptapedia, a knowledge repository for group model-building scripts. He is an Associate Editor for System Dynamics Review.

His work has been funded by over 20 institutions, including NIH, NSF, Gates Foundation, and Wellcome Trust. Current interests include bridging engineering/science with lived experience, sustaining common pool resources, and advancing STEM equity. Recent articles emphasize scalable implementation science, housing policy simulations, and addressing health disparities in marginalized populations.

Grants and collaborations span global health, child welfare, and AI ethics. Notable projects include WHO STOPS Childhood Obesity and evaluations of early childhood initiatives. His lab's participatory approach integrates community voices into systems modeling, driving policy reforms in housing, healthcare, and education.