Salar Ghamat, Wilfrid Laurier University

Research

Supply Chain Coordination Incentive alignment Mechanism design Value-of-information Health economics Machine learning Network coordination Management science

Latest papers

Influencing Primary Care Antibiotic Prescription Behavior Using Financial Incentives.
Production and operations management · 2024 · first author

All 1 publications

Latest funding

Enhancing Coordination Mechanisms in Supply and Service Networks through Data Analytics
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$25,301
Optimal contract policies for improving access to child and youth public services: the case of the Ontario Autism Program
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$65,530
Business Analytics in Supply Chain
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$215,000

All 4 grants and awards

1 publications.

01

Influencing Primary Care Antibiotic Prescription Behavior Using Financial Incentives.

Ghamat S, Araghi M, Cipriano LE, Silverman M

Production and operations management2024First author

DOI: 10.1177/10591478241264022 PMID: 41908522

Enhancing Coordination Mechanisms in Supply and Service Networks through Data Analytics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Ghamat, Salar

Keywords: Supply chain coordination; Network coordination; Incentive alignment; Mechanism design; Value-of-information; Health economics; Machine learning

$25,301

Optimal contract policies for improving access to child and youth public services: the case of the Ontario Autism Program

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Rodrigues, Felipe

Keywords: Game theory; Queuing Theory; Incentive and contract Theory; Principal-agent models; child and youth public services; Ontario Autism Program; Acess to public services; Autism Spectrum Disorder

$65,530

Business Analytics in Supply Chain

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Ghamat, Salar

$215,000

Compensation Models to Coordinate Optional Operational Tasks

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Ghamat, Salar

Keywords: Management science; Operations research; Decision analysis; Compensation Models; Incentive theory; Supply Chain Coordination; Information asymmetry; Contract design

$70,495

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Management, Business, Administrative Studies
Medicine
Lazaridis School of Business and Economics

Co-authors at Wilfrid Laurier University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Michael Silverman

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Mojtaba Araghi

Lazaridis School of Business and Economics

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Supply Chain Coordination Dear Professor Ghamat, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Influencing Primary Care Antibiotic Prescription Behavior Using Financial Incentives." (2024), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Enhancing Coordination Mechanisms in Supply and Service Networks through Data Analytics" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]