Vahid Salehi
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.
