Raheelah Ahmad

Raheelah Ahmad is a Research Associate working alongside Yiannis Kyratsis in work-stream 1 “embedding infection prevention within NHS organisational structures: innovation adoption and behaviour change”. Using a multi-method approach to analyse structural and behavioural factors involved in innovation adoption and diffusion, the findings will inform practice by providing information on what can help or hinder innovation adoption.  The research approach will use institutional and innovation diffusion theories to examine and model factors which influence the adoption of new technologies or changes in the institution and will add to the body of empirical and theoretical studies an developing  ways of embedding infection prevention within management, service delivery and Operational Development. Multiple case-studies and qualitative interviews will be used to enable theory to be developed and an analytical framework to be mapped.  The outputs for this work-stream will be (1) a series of individual case studies (2) cross-case studies which analyse and synthesise findings from different cases (3) development of stand alone cases for use by practitioners and in training and policy development (4) development of a diagnostic tool-box and an organisational guide. 

Background

Raheelah’s main research interests included qualitative methods of inquiry, consumer centred approaches to provision of healthcare, sense-making theory and inequities in health service provision and outcomes.  She joins the Centre from a PhD in Health Management completed within the Imperial College Business School.  Her thesis title was: Explaining antenatal health-seeking behaviour: a sense-making perspective.

 Raheelah is a founding member of the International Health Management Research Collaborative.