The BYU Healthcare Research Hub was founded
in 2019 to bring together top students and
research affiliates to help transform healthcare.
Our Team
Organizational Model
The BYU Healthcare Research Hub (the Hub) is a centralized ecosystem that integrates student talent with faculty and professional mentoring to generate high-impact, healthcare-related research deliverables. The Hub includes a variety of projects and initiatives across the healthcare industry. Recognizing the depth of research talent among BYU students across disciplines, the Hub provides the organizational structure necessary to enable students, in collaboration with research advisors, to move projects from conceptual phases to published or implemented outcomes.
Research Portfolio
The Hub’s work is structured into four distinct workstreams that differ by audience, output, and mode of engagement:
1. Academic Research: A broad portfolio of peer-reviewed academic work, including system-related studies, clinical studies, and behavioral science.
2. Practitioner Outlets: Non-peer-reviewed work, such as practitioner journal articles, popular press books, LinkedIn articles, and editorials.
3. Industry Projects: Deliverables for healthcare organizations, including healthcare-related Church humanitarian and Missionary Medical projects.
4. CES Collaborations: Church Educational System work, including the BYU School of Medicine and other CES-specific healthcare projects that foster expansion of healthcare leadership, research, and clinical opportunities.
Research Engine
Work in the Hub includes, but is not limited to, Healthcare Leadership (HL) 385/685, a dedicated research course that serves as the Hub’s primary lab environment. The Hub structure provides:
1. Training: Instruction on data collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation, as well as literature review, writing, research design, and theory building.
2. Capacity: By leveraging a credit-bearing course, the Hub maintains a steady pipeline of researchers to contribute to active research programs.
3. Accountability: Most students participate in the Hub for credit, ensuring a high level of commitment and consistent progress on long-term workstreams.
4. Continuity: Students may continue their involvement with the Hub as volunteers or paid research assistants, enabling sustained, year-round project engagement.