Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement (CHI²)

CHI² leads and explores multidisciplinary research into health and care systems, and ways to improve them.

We are hiring

Current research vacancies at CHI²

PhD opportunity open for applications

Apply now for our PhD project: 'developing a dynamic population model of disease and accompanying open source software tool'. Funding opportunities available.

Research Assistant/Associate (fixed term)

A fixed-term post (up to a year) for a project with NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (BNSSG CCG).

Research

Read about the research we are involved in, including current projects with health and care partners, and academics.

Healthcare innovation and improvement research

We are working on research to better understand, and solve, the practical challenges of health and social care systems.

News

Developments from the centre and healthcare-related news.

Improving Health and Social Care with a free online course

Prof Vasilakis and colleagues reflect on the impact of their ongoing online course on Quality Improvement (QI) in Healthcare (next run starts 8 June 2020)

International Health Care Workshop with Koç University

Workshop participants gathered outside the venue

Early-career workshop on “Improving health care operations through modelling and simulation” for UK and Turkey-based researchers in Bath, 28-30 July 2017.

Social value creation and relational coordination in public-private collaborations

Jens Roehrich's study uncovers the underlying mechanisms for social value creation in public-private collaborations.

Publications

Papers relating to our research.

Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement (CHI²) publications

Selected publications by members of our CHI² research centre.

Upcoming events

We regularly run healthcare-related events on campus.

CHI² Anniversary Event

11 Feb 2020 5.30pm Weston Studios, The Edge, University of Bath

To mark the fifth anniversary of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement, we are holding an event to celebrate our successes and impacts.

About us

This multi-disciplinary centre brings together extensive expertise at the University of Bath in applied health research, including operational research, operations management, analytics, information systems, other quantitative and qualitative research methods and models, and experience from different industries.

Contact us

Professor Christos Vasilakis, Director of Centre