Dr Mehdi Yousefi

Dr Mehdi Yousefi

Health Services Management Centre
Research Fellow in Health Economics

Contact details

Address
Health Services Management Centre
Park House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Mehdi Yousefi is a specialist in health economic evaluation and health technology assessment (HTA). His research provides evidence to inform decision-making on technologies, including new treatments, for NICE and other UK health policy makers. His expertise includes decision modelling, systematic literature reviews, and critical appraisal, with a focus on cancer and rare disease treatments.

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Qualifications

  • PhD in Health Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran (2010 – 2013)
  • MSc in Health Economics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran (2007 – 2009)
  • BS in Health Care Management, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (2003 – 2007)

Biography

Mehdi Yousefi is a member of the Birmingham Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science (BCEIS), specialising in health economics and health technology assessment. His research focuses on multiple and single technology assessments, systematic literature reviews, decision modelling for health economic evaluations, household health costs and expenditures, micro-costing in healthcare services, and hospital productivity analysis.

With nearly a decade of experience as academic staff in health economics and management at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS), Mehdi also served as the Director of the Centre for University Policy Research and Development at MUMS for two years.

His research interests include health technology appraisal, systematic literature review, decision modelling for health economic evaluations, and costing and hospital productivity analysis.

In addition to his academic work, Mehdi brings significant leadership experience from his tenure as CEO of a 1,000-bed general hospital, where he led research groups focused on hospital productivity using action research methods.

Research

  • Technology appraisal
  • Systematic literature review 
  • Decision Modelling and Health Technology Assessment
  • Costing and productivity analysis