A clearer view of what we know.
And what’s missing.

Dr. Hamad Al Ibrahim is a Research Assistant Professor in the Policy Department at the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) at Qatar University, where he leads innovative research at the intersection of health policy, artificial intelligence, and evidence synthesis.

His research portfolio spans multiple critical areas including women’s health, AI applications in healthcare systems, and advanced evidence synthesis methodologies. Following his contributions to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s consensus study on A New Vision for Women’s Health Research: Transformative Change at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Al Ibrahim has focused his efforts on exploring blind spots in women’s health research. His work examines how systematic gaps in clinical evidence affect policy and practice, with particular attention to underrepresented populations and understudied conditions.

Dr. Al Ibrahim’s methodological expertise centers on evidence mapping and systematic review techniques enhanced by AI technologies. He has established strong collaborative networks with leading research institutions internationally, including ongoing partnerships with Tufts Medical Center on cardiovascular health and women’s health initiatives. His work explores how natural language processing and machine learning can transform traditional systematic review processes, making evidence synthesis more efficient and comprehensive while revealing critical research gaps.

In addition to his research at Qatar University, Dr. Al Ibrahim serves on the faculty at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, where he teaches advanced courses in policy intelligence and evidence synthesis, training the next generation of researchers in both traditional and AI-enhanced methodologies. He is also founder of Policy Tech Innovations LLC, through which he consults on research methodology and AI integration strategies.

Dr. Al Ibrahim’s work exemplifies the modern policy researcher—combining traditional scholarly rigor with technological innovation to address pressing health and social policy challenges in Qatar and beyond.

Chloe E. Bird is an adjunct sociologist at RAND, professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy, director of the Center for Health Equity Research at Tufts Medical Center, and Sara Murray Jordan Professor of Medicine at Tufts Medical School. She studies women’s health and determinants of sex/gender differences in health and health care. Bird has served as senior advisor in the National Institutes of Health’s Office for Research on Women’s Health and editor-in-chief of Women’s Health Issues.

Her current work includes an NSF-funded study examining sociologists’ identity development as STEM researchers and NIH-funded work assessing the impact of policy efforts to improve maternal health care and reduce disparities. She is working to build a joint donor-funded Women’s Health Research and Policy Institute between RAND and Tufts.

Recent research includes a WHAM-commissioned study assessing societal and economic impacts of increasing funding for research on women’s health. In Gender and Health: The Effects of Constrained Choice and Social Policies (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Bird and her coauthor explore how policymakers and other stakeholders shape individuals’ opportunities to pursue a healthy life. They emphasize the need for research that informs stakeholders’ decisions.

Bird received the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology for her work on women’s health. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Health Behavior. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.