Dr Itamar Megiddo
Senior Lecturer
Management Science
Personal statement
I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Management Science, conducting interdisciplinary research aimed at tackling healthcare challenges and improving decision-making and implementation in healthcare policy. My research is centred around using systems thinking and modelling approaches and draws on tools and methods from mathematical epidemiology, economics, management science, and computer science, among other fields.
My main body of work involves systems modelling and simulation, and it involves integrating disease and economic models for policy impact evaluation and prioritisation. I am interested in both infectious disease and non-communicable disease modelling. From a methodological standpoint, I am particularly interested in strengthening rigour in agent-based modelling and hybrid models, which integrate modelling methods when this simplifies analyses. I have applied my research to studying and conducting knowledge-exchange activities addressing global health challenges. This includes conducting healthcare intervention and policy evaluations, studying health systems strengthening in low- and middle-income countries, studying antimicrobial resistance policy globally and in the UK, evaluating COVID-19 policy and interventions, investigating how behaviour and social structure affect health and diseases, and exploring the role of incentives in healthcare policy design.
I hold a PhD in Management Science, specialising in modelling for healthcare policy, from the University of Strathclyde and an MA in economics and BA honours economics from McGill University, in Montreal.
Area of Expertise
- Health Economics
- Agent-based modeling
- Systems modeling
- Disease modeling
- Pneumococcal disease
Prize And Awards
- EURO Prize for OR for the Common Good 2022 - Finalists
- Recipient
- 6/7/2022
- The OR Society’s Doctoral Award 2016
- Recipient
- 25/4/2018
Publications
- Improving diabetes treatment outcomes : an agent-based model of patients’ self-management behaviours and treatment outcomes in Ghana
- Adwubi Tagoe Eunice Twumwaa, Megiddo Itamar, Van Deer Meer Robert
- Proceedings of the Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop 2025 (SW25) 12th OR Society Simulation Workshop, pp. 88-98 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.36819/SW25.012
- Exploring the drivers of unsustainable pressures in health and social care : a qualitative system dynamics approach.
- Nguyen Le Khanh Ngan, McCabe Holly, Howick Susan, Megiddo Itamar, Sengupta Soumen, Morton Alec
- Social Science and Medicine Vol 371 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117913
- Expert decision-making in clinicians : an auto-analytic ethnographic study of operational decision-making in urgent care
- Irvine Nicola, Van Der Meer Robert, Megiddo Itamar
- PLoS ONE Vol 20 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311748
- Health Care Management Science for Underserved Populations
- Megiddo Itamar, Deo Sarang, Morton Alec, Silal Sheetal
- Health Care Management Science Vol 27, pp. 665-667 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10729-024-09687-2
- COVID-19 in Scottish care homes : a metapopulation model of spread among residents and staff
- Baister Matthew, McTaggart Ewan, McMenemy Paul, Megiddo Itamar, Kleczkowski Adam
- Epidemics Vol 48 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2024.100781
- Combining SD & ABM : frameworks, benefits, challenges, and future research directions
- Howick Susan, Megiddo Itamar, Nguyen Le Khanh Ngan, Wurth Bernd, Kazakov Rossen
- Hybrid Modeling and Simulation Conceptualizations, Methods and Applications (2024) (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59999-6_9
Professional Activities
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
- Visiting researcher
- 9/6/2024
- Health and Care Futures: thematic areas workshop
- Participant
- 30/5/2024
- Improving Diabetes Service Delivery in Ghana
- Contributor
- 9/11/2023
- Future Organisation: Social Care Futures
- Speaker
- 11/5/2023
- Value Based Health & Care Group, Scottish Government (External organisation)
- Member
- 2023
- Health and Care Futures at Strathclyde Showcase Event
- Speaker
- 10/10/2022
Projects
- WHERC: Building towards a vision of Work-Health Expert Research Collaboration/Centre (WHDA-01-01)
- Whitworth, Adam (Principal Investigator) Smith, Kat (Co-investigator) Megiddo, Itamar (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- COVID-19 Multi-Model Comparison Consortium (CMCC)
- Megiddo, Itamar (Principal Investigator)
- 15-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2020
- A Socio-economically-informed Approach to Novel Treatments for TB
- Scott, Fraser (Principal Investigator) Megiddo, Itamar (Co-investigator)
- SFC GCRF Pump Priming Award
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2020
- Supporting decision making in Global Fund CCMs
- Morton, Alec (Principal Investigator) Blair, Shona (Co-investigator) Lauer, Jeremy (Co-investigator) Megiddo, Itamar (Co-investigator) Millar, Robyn (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2021
- Supporting decision making in Global Fund CCMs: technical tools and process support for decision making across the Big Three Diseases plus One
- Morton, Alec (Principal Investigator) Megiddo, Itamar (Co-investigator)
- Funding: £72,600
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2022
- STRAthclyde Diversity in Data LinkagE (STRADDLE) Doctoral Training Centre
- Barry, Sarah (Co-investigator) Kavanagh, Kimberley (Co-investigator) Megiddo, Itamar (Co-investigator) Murray, Paul (Co-investigator) Rattray, Nicholas (Co-investigator)
- The focus of the STRAthclyde Diversity in Data LinkagE (STRADDLE) DTC is to develop a centre of excellence in the linkage and analysis of data across disciplines. With an initial focus on health and healthcare delivery, STRADDLE will deliver linkage and innovative analysis of data from the molecular to population level, to achieve new insights and to maximize the value of health research data. There are 3 fully funded, 3.5 year PhD studentships are available to highly motivated UK and EU students. Successful applicants will be trained as the next generation of data scientists and develop skills and know how to deliver on the integration of diverse clinical data types – from molecules to man to populations.
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2023
Contact
Dr
Itamar
Megiddo
Senior Lecturer
Management Science
Email: itamar.megiddo@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3452