Nick Fahy

Nick Fahy

Director of the Health and Care Research Group, RAND Europe; Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy

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Nicholas (Nick) Fahy is director of the Health and Care research group at RAND Europe. He oversees research in such areas as public health, health systems and services, and technology and innovation. He is also a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy.

Fahy joined RAND Europe from the University of Oxford, where he was a senior researcher in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, and he remains a fellow at Green Templeton College. As a researcher and consultant in health policy and systems, he looked at how health systems work; lessons learned by comparing health systems across countries; and how to bring about constructive change in health systems.

Fahy is also a senior expert advisor on innovation and implementation for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, working with policymakers across Europe to support evidence-informed policymaking. This builds on wide-ranging experience in international health policy, including over a decade in the European Commission.

Fahy has a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in evidence-based health care, specifically examining psychological theory and its role in the model of diffusion of innovations in health care, and is a chartered psychologist. 

Education

D.Phil. in evidence-based healthcare, University of Oxford

Languages

French

Concurrent Non-RAND Positions

Senior Expert Advisor on health systems innovation, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies; Associate Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford

Selected Work

  • Nick Fahy, Nicole Mauer, Dimitra Panteli, From ideas to reality: an introduction to generating and implementing innovation in health systems, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies/WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2025
  • Scott L. Greer, Sarah Rozenblum, Nick Fahy, Eleanor Brooks, Holly Jarman, Anniek de Ruiter, Matthias Wismar, Dimitra Panteli, Olivia Rockwell, Everything you always wanted to know about European Union health policies but were afraid to ask (Fourth edition), European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies/WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2024
  • Stijn Horck, Nick Fahy, Trisha Greenhalgh, "Implementation challenges of electronic blood transfusion safety systems: Lessons from an international, multi-site comparative case study," Transfusion Medicine, 2024
  • Stockwell, Stephanie, Giulia Maistrello, Sarah Ball, Jessica Dawney, Michael Whitmore, and Nick Fahy, The role of evidence in occupational safety and health, RAND Corporation (RR-A2153-1), 2022
  • Nick Fahy, Gemma A Williams, COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor Network, Use of digital health tools in Europe: before, during and after COVID-19, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2021
  • Nick Fahy, Nicole Mauer, Dimitra Panteli, European support for improving health and care systems, European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2021
  • Trisha Greenhalgh, Joseph Wherton, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Jennifer Lynch, Gemma Hughes, Christine A'Court, Susan Hinder, Nick Fahy, Rob Procter, Sara Shaw, "Beyond adoption: a new framework for theorizing and evaluating nonadoption, abandonment, and challenges to the scale-up, spread, and sustainability of health and care technologies," Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(11), 2017
  • Nick Fahy, Tamara Hervey, Scott Greer, Holly Jarman, David Stuckler, Mike Galsworthy, Martin McKee, "How will Brexit affect health and health services in the UK? Evaluating three possible scenarios," The Lancet, 6736(17), 2017

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