About the Center
The Center for Health Business Research supports Marshall University’s strategic priority of driving innovative business ideas and economic impact in the University’s “Health Sciences” Area of Distinction and its subareas: (1) addiction, (2) gerontology, (3) rural health, and (4) obesity.
Vision
To conduct outstanding research at the intersection of business and healthcare in West Virginia, and the tri-state region of West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, that:
- Supports the development of new public healthcare administrative policy,
- Improves implementation of new health care innovations (e.g., Artificial Intelligence) in the health care field,
- Provides understanding of the economic impact of healthcare in West Virginia.
Activities
Conducting research that is:
- Interdisciplinary – blending investigators with expertise in business administration fields (e.g., accounting, finance, economics, etc.) health professions, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health, as well as field-level practitioners and/or government officials with deep, practical knowledge about important areas of health care operations in order to gain a more complete, holistic understanding of important problems and areas for investigation through research.
- Focused on the application of business/management theories and scholarship to better understand, address and create new knowledge about the grand challenges facing West Virginia’s (and the tri-state area’s) health care delivery system. These challenges include, but are not limited to:
- Health of the health care workforce
- Delivering effective health care in rural communities
- Addressing obesity/Overcoming addiction/Meeting the health needs of the tri-state area’s aging population
