PEOPLE & LEADERSHIP
Research Is Built Around People, Ideas and Collaboration
ICHEPI is being developed as an independent interdisciplinary research initiative connecting healthcare economics, policy, management, behavioral science, and innovation.
Its current leadership provides the intellectual foundation for the Center while an open collaborative model enables future partnerships across institutions, disciplines, and health systems.
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MA
Healthcare Economics
Health Policy
Healthcare Innovation
Dr. Mohannad M. Alarqan
Healthcare Economist and Researcher
Dr. Alarqan is the Founder and Executive Director of ICHEPI. His research spans healthcare economics, health policy, hospital management, health-system resilience, behavioral health economics, digital health, and the economics of healthcare innovation.
His work examines how health systems can allocate limited resources more effectively, improve operational performance, strengthen resilience, and assess whether technological and organizational innovations generate measurable system value.
A recurring emphasis across this work is the translation of economic and policy evidence into practical questions relevant to healthcare organizations and decision-makers, particularly in MENA and resource-constrained settings.
RESEARCH LENS
From Individual Decisions to Health-System Performance
The underlying research perspective connects microeconomic behavior, organizational decision-making, healthcare operations, and system-level policy.
This allows questions about incentives, patient and provider behavior, hospital efficiency, technology adoption, workforce organization, resilience, and resource allocation to be examined as interconnected parts of healthcare-system performance.
Areas of Expertise
Research interests span several connected areas within the ICHEPI agenda.
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Healthcare Economics & Value
Efficiency, resource allocation, economic evaluation, incentives, healthcare utilization, value-based care, and behavioral health economics.
02
Hospital Management & Operations
Patient flow, operational flexibility, capacity, workforce organization, hospital efficiency, process redesign, and resource use.
03
Health Policy & Resilience
System performance, health financing, workforce policy, strategic capacity, pharmaceutical policy, access, resilience, and resource security.
04
Digital Health & Innovation Economics
Artificial intelligence, interoperability, simulation, RTLS, technology adoption, digital health, and organizational and economic value creation.
How Leadership Connects to ICHEPI
Research Development
Developing interdisciplinary research questions, analytical frameworks, empirical studies, and methodological approaches aligned with ICHEPI’s research agenda.
Evidence Translation
Connecting research findings to healthcare management, policy, innovation, and resource-allocation decisions.
Research Collaboration
Building partnerships around joint studies, comparative health-system research, methodological development, and interdisciplinary projects.
Scholarly Presence
Academic and professional profiles provide access to publications, research activity, scholarly identity, and professional engagement.
ORCID
Persistent scholarly identity and research record.
Google Scholar
Research publications and citation profile.
Professional activity, research updates, and academic networking.
Direct profile links can be added as the People page is finalized.
An Open Collaborative Model
ICHEPI is designed to grow through collaboration rather than through the appearance of a large formal structure before one exists.
The Center welcomes project-based relationships with researchers, universities, healthcare organizations, clinicians, analysts, and policy institutions whose expertise complements specific areas of the research agenda.
Future collaborators and formal research roles will be presented transparently as those relationships are established.
POTENTIAL COLLABORATION
- Joint research
- Comparative studies
- Methods collaboration
- Policy analysis
- Data and modelling
- Research translation
Interested in Working with ICHEPI?
Research collaboration can begin with a shared question.
ICHEPI welcomes conversations around joint research, comparative health-system studies, methodological collaboration, healthcare innovation, and policy-relevant evidence development.
