Vahid Salehi

Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD

Nursing, Faculty of

MacLaggan Hall 211

Fredericton

v.salehi@unb.ca



Education

  • PhD in Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2022

Research interest

  • Systems Thinking in Healthcare
  • Human Factors in Healthcare
  • Complexity Modelling
  • Resilient Healthcare
  • Community Ergonomics
  • Literature review in Healthcare

Awards and distinctions

Purdy Crawford & Stephen Jarislowsky Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Policy (2024): $80,000

Mitacs Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022): $60,000

AGE-WELL (Canada’s Technology and Aging Network) Graduate Student Award (2022): $24,000

Best Paper Award (2022): Wiley Publishing Company

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2020): Memorial University of Newfoundland

Professional experience

Editorial Board (Human Factors in Healthcare, Elsevier): 2023 - Present

Selected publications

Salehi*, V., Salmon, P. M., Burns, C., McGill, A., Smith, D., & Veitch, B. (2025). Towards Holistic Functional Task Analysis. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries, 35(1), e21059.

McGill, A., Salehi, V., McCloskey, R., Smith, D., & Veitch, B. (2024). Mapping the way: functional modelling for community-based integrated care for older people. Health Research Policy and Systems, 22(1), 103.

Salehi*, V., Veitch, B., Smith, D., & McCarthy, J. (2024). Understanding the complexity of a stroke care system through functional modelling and analysis. Human Factors in Healthcare, 6, 100084.

Salehi, V., Moradi, G., Omidi, L., & Rahimi, E. (2023). An MCDM Approach to Assessing Influential Factors on Healthcare Providers’ Safe Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Probing into Demographic Variables. Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, 4(3), 274-283.

Salehi*, V., Veitch, B., & Smith, D. (2023). Critical path planning for discharging older adults using a functional perspective. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries, 33(4), 312-326.

Salehi*, V., Hanson, N., Smith, D., McCloskey, R., Jarrett, P., & Veitch B. (2021). Modeling and analyzing hospital to home transition processes of frail older adults using the functional resonance analysis method (FRAM). Applied Ergonomics, 93, 103392.

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