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Research Briefs

The School is home to outstanding research working at the intersection of business, healthcare, and life sciences.

Our faculty have prepared summaries of their academic research to highlight key insights for practitioners across the health sector.

 

Appointments: Overcoming Behavioural Barriers to Healthcare

How do health appointments affect the behavior of patients? Do they actually encourage people to seek care?

Using patent citations to assess science-innovation linkages and the value of medical research

This study had one specific aim: administer a survey of citing inventors and use machine learning techniques to see what types of research are influential and why.

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Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa

As rich countries grapple with Covid, poor countries, and African countries in particular, have been lost in the shuffle. How are these countries faring, given a younger age distribution but more co-morbidities?