Collaborative  Model-building project to understand sexual violence (CAMPUS)

Project: CAMPUS

Funding: NIH (NIAAA)

The overall goal of this proposal is to create a stakeholder-developed agent-based model (ABM) that will serve as a tool to help campuses reduce alcohol-involved sexual violence (SV) among students. To achieve this goal, we will conduct a series of stakeholder-engaged model building sessions interspersed with work by a Core Modeling Team to combine models into an integrated systems model of hazardous drinking, SV, and intervention opportunities on college campuses. This model will be developed into an ABM of SV on campuses using an agent-based model-building platform with realistic synthetic populations that provides a population foundation for community-based simulations (FRED).

Aim 1. Characterize the systems of alcohol use and sexual violence and intervention opportunities on college campuses using a stakeholder-engaged model building process.

Aim 2. Iteratively build an agent-based model of the stakeholder-designed system using the FRED agent-based modeling platform.

Aim 3. Develop stakeholder-informed dissemination action plans for translating agent-based model results into campus-specific programs and policies for reducing alcohol-involved SV.

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