Research for Better Health-System Decisions
ICHEPI develops interdisciplinary research on how healthcare systems allocate resources, organize care, respond to constraints, and adopt innovation.
Our research combines economic, policy, management, behavioral, and technological perspectives, with particular attention to MENA and resource-constrained health systems.
Research at a Glance
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Interconnected research pillars
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Current and developing research streams
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Research-output pathways
Research Areas
Our research is organized around four connected domains rather than isolated disciplinary silos.
Healthcare Economics & Value
Healthcare efficiency, economic evaluation, resource allocation, behavioral health economics, patient and provider decision-making, incentives, utilization, and value-based healthcare.
Health Policy & System Resilience
Health financing, access, equity, workforce policy, system performance, preparedness, resilience, pharmaceutical policy, and healthcare capacity.
Healthcare Management & Operations
Hospital efficiency, patient flow, capacity management, workforce, operational flexibility, process redesign, and the economics of healthcare delivery.
Digital Health, AI & Innovation Economics
Digital health, artificial intelligence, interoperability, simulation, real-time location systems, technology adoption, and the economic and organizational value of healthcare innovation.
Current & Developing Research
Selected streams currently shaping ICHEPI’s interdisciplinary research agenda.
Operational Flexibility and Hospital Resource Allocation
Examining how operational flexibility can improve the allocation and use of hospital resources under uncertainty, capacity pressure, and changing demand.
Hospital economics • Operations • Resource allocation
Healthcare Technology and System Value
Investigating when technologies such as RTLS, digital interoperability, simulation, and AI generate measurable operational, economic, and organizational value for healthcare systems.
Digital health • Technology management • Innovation economics
Health System Resilience and Strategic Resource Security
Examining healthcare-system resilience, pharmaceutical supply vulnerability, strategic capacity, and the economic implications of dependence on constrained or concentrated resources.
Resilience • Pharmaceutical policy • Strategic capacity
Primary Care Workforce and Service Redesign
Exploring innovative workforce and service-delivery models for strengthening access, continuity, and system resilience in underserved and resource-constrained settings.
Primary care • Workforce • Access
Behavioral Health Economics and Decision-Making
Studying how preferences, incentives, risk, time, information, and behavioral factors shape decisions made by patients, healthcare professionals, and health organizations.
Behavioral economics • Preferences • Decision science
Research Foundations & Transparency
ICHEPI’s research agenda builds on prior and ongoing work undertaken by its founder in healthcare economics, health policy, hospital management, health-system resilience, digital health, and healthcare innovation.
Where research predates the establishment of ICHEPI, it is identified as work informing the Center’s research agenda rather than as research originally produced under an ICHEPI institutional affiliation.
Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Research
Original interdisciplinary studies developed for publication in academic journals.
Working Papers
Research circulated during development or prior to journal publication.
Policy Briefs
Concise evidence syntheses and policy-oriented analyses for decision-makers.
Methods & Data
Reproducible analytical methods, models, indices, datasets, and methodological notes where appropriate.
Research Insights
Accessible, evidence-based analysis of emerging healthcare economics, management, policy, and innovation issues.
Research Principles
- Scientific rigor — analytical claims should not exceed what the evidence can support.
- Policy relevance — research should address problems with meaningful implications for healthcare systems and decision-makers.
- Interdisciplinarity — healthcare challenges are examined across economics, policy, management, organizational, behavioral, and technological perspectives.
- Transparency and reproducibility — methods, assumptions, limitations, and data sources should be reported clearly.
- Independence — research findings should remain analytically independent of institutional, commercial, or policy interests.
Research Collaboration
ICHEPI welcomes collaboration with researchers, universities, healthcare organizations, policy institutions, and interdisciplinary research groups working on shared healthcare-system challenges.
Potential collaboration includes joint studies, comparative research, methodological collaboration, policy-oriented projects, and interdisciplinary research development.
