DrRazieh Safarifard

Dr Razieh Safarifard is a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate School of Healthcare Management, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is currently working on the HRB Evidence for Policy Med-SMART study, Development of Medical Workforce Management Framework for Staffing and Skills Mix Assessment for Resilient Teams in Ireland, a mixed-methods project addressing workforce planning and implementation in healthcare systems.

Her research focuses on understanding how organisational, workforce, and system-level factors shape healthcare delivery, staff experience, and service quality, with a particular emphasis on translating evidence into actionable policy and practice.

Razieh holds a PhD in Psychology and has expertise in mixed-methods research, intervention development, stakeholder engagement, and policy-relevant health research. Prior to joining RCSI, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Dublin City University, where she contributed to a HRB-funded study involving co-design and intervention development in paediatric palliative care.

She has also held academic roles in teaching and research in psychology and health-related fields. Razieh previously served as a lecturer at the University of Tehran and Farhangian University, delivering undergraduate modules in psychology, counselling, and developmental psychology, and supporting research methods education. Alongside her teaching, she contributed to research in areas including mental health, mindfulness, and e-learning.