Current WORK

My work is currently supported by grant funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R01, R18), the National Institutes for Health (R01), the US Department of Veteran Affairs and multiple private foundations. I aim to redesign healthcare delivery at three scales: the actually hospital building, regional networks of hospitals and finally neighborhoods. At each scale, I apply design principles and evaluate them quantitatively with the tools of health services research.

As the trend toward hospital mergers and consolidations continues, newly forming health care networks need to take advantage of their accumulated assets by implementing a redesign of service lines and process of care. This is both a design and health services research challenge.

What if everything we build & design was done with Health as a Priority? Much like policy makers adopted, “Health in All Policies” , what if architecture, planning and design communities systematically committed to “Health in All Design?” Although my work in architecture traditionally focused on healthcare facilities, clients are increasingly asking, “how can we make schools, stadiums, officer spaces, and housing healthier?” Follow the full Tweetorial outlined here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/health-all-design-andrew-m-ibrahim-md-msc/