Nathaniel Osgood MS, PhD

Nathaniel Osgood serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Associate Faculty in the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, and Division of Bioengineering at the University of Saskatchewan. His research is focused on providing and applying cross-linked simulation, ubiquitous sensing, and computational statistics methods to inform understanding of population health trends and health policy tradeoffs. Dr. Osgood has been applying dynamic modeling to improve decision making – with a particular focus on health – for over 25 years, with contributions in the communicable, chronic, and zoonotic disease areas, and to social and environmental epidemiology and tobacco policy.

On the methodological front, Dr. Osgood has contributed multi-scale modeling and other approaches that hybridize Agent-based models with System Dynamics and Social Networks Analysis approaches, techniques combining dynamic modeling with Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Sequential Monte Carlo statistical methods, combining simulation models with decision analytic approaches, and novel languages, scale-modeling approaches and architectures to reduce barriers to use of Agent-Based models.