Dr Raheelah Ahmad leads the Health Innovation and Systems Change teaching on the MSc Health Management programme at City, University of London and is the Director for Global Engagement for the School of Health and Psychological Sciences.
Raheelah’s research experience includes mixed method approaches to the study of innovation adoption at the organisational level and evaluation of public health interventions in different national and resource settings including the Family Medicine Model in Bosnia & Turkey; Global Fund interventions to address HIV and TB in Ukraine & Moldova; Maternal health interventions in Pakistan; national mental health policy in West Africa, and Health System Analysis for improvement in infection outcomes in India and South Africa. This research work is preceded by a decade of management experience in the English National Health Service and a PhD in Health Management (Imperial Business School, London).
Raheelah is recipient of an NIHR Fellowship in Knowledge Mobilisation to evaluate sustained impact of interventions to address antimicrobial resistance across the healthcare economy, Deputy Chair of The Surveillance and Epidemiology of Drug-resistant Infections Consortium (SEDRIC) and Co-Investigator and Knowledge Mobilisation Lead at three National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Units (HPRU) at Imperial College London: Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (HCAI & AMR); Modelling and Health Economics; Respiratory Infections. Raheelah is also Adjunct Professor at Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Pakistan.