Farshad Farzadfar, MD
4, Nejatolahi St, 4th floor Enghelab Ave, Tehran, Iran Office phone : +9821 88913543 Phone : 0912-849-1949 Email : [email protected] [email protected]
Education
Medical Doctorate Medical University of Tehran 01/1987-03/1994 Masters of Public Health Medical University of Tehran 09/2000-09/2003 Maters of Health sciences Harvard School of Public Health 09/2005-06/2007 Doctor of Sciences Harvard school of Public Health 09/2007- 05/2011
Employment History
Non-Communicable Diseases 06/2012_present Chairmanship Research center Global burden of diseases, risk 09/2007-08/2011 Researcher factors, and injuries project 10/2005- 09/2007 Researcher Harvard initiatives for global health
Chief executive officer of family physician program, Senior expert of 9/2002-08/2005 Ministry of Health, Tehran, IRAN Decentralization, Monitoring and Evaluation systems
9/1997-9/2002 Manager of provincial family health Kurdistan university of medical group, sciences, Iran Baneh district, Kurdistan university of 12/1996 - 9/1997 Manager of District Health Center, medical sciences, Iran Kamyaran district, Kurdistan 1/1996-12/1996 Manager of District Health Center, university of medical sciences, Iran
6/1995-1/1996 Emergency Section physician, Sina City of Kamyaran, Kurdistan General Hospital, university of medical sciences, Iran 6/1994-6/1995 Physician, Islam-Abad Rural Health District of Kamyaran, Kurdistan Center, university of medical sciences, Iran
1 Projects and Professional Activities
Supporting Date Title Role Involved Centers Organization Maternal care Monitoring and Principal Kurdistan University of 1998 UNFPA Evaluation System Investigator Medical Sciences, Iran Family planning Monitoring and Principal 1998 UNFPA Kurdistan Province Evaluation System Investigator Child Care Monitoring and Principal 1999 UNICEF Kurdistan Province Evaluation System Investigator Implementation of alarming system for maternal events UNFPA, Principal 1998 “Successful in reduction of maternal Kurdistan Kurdistan Province Investigator mortality rate by 50% after two University years” Family Health Services Quality Kurdistan Principal 1998 Kurdistan Province Assurance and Control University Investigator UNFPA Co- Demographic and Health Survey UNICEF 2000 Investigator Kurdistan Province (DHS) in Kurdistan Province Kurdistan
University Member of Iranian National Death Registry Ministry of Project 2002 At national level System Health Design Team Project Survey On The Health System Manager at 2001 Responsiveness In Kurdistan WHO Kurdistan Province Provincial Province. Level Kurdistan Hrmozgan workshops on health program 2002 UNICEF Director Kohkilouyeh management Sistan & Balouchestan Medical universities National Iranian Utilization of Co- 2003 WHO At national level Health Care Services Investigator Intetegration of AIDS Prevention Ministry of Principal 2003 Program in Iranian Health Network At national level Health, IRAN Investigator System. Intetegration of Diabetes Screening Ministry of Principal 2004 Program in Iranian Health Network At national level Health, IRAN Investigator System Harvard Measuring the Effective Coverage of Initiative for 2006 Researcher Harvard University Diabetes and Hypertension in Iran Global Health
2 Global burden of 2007- Global burden of metabolic risk diseases, risk Researcher Harvard University 2011 factors factors, and injuries project 2011- Rural family physician evaluation Ministry of Principal Tehran University of present study Health Investigator Medical sciences National and sub-national burden of 2011- Ministry of Principal Tehran University of diseases, risk factors and injuries present Health Investigator Medical sciences from 1990 to 2010 in Iran 2012- National Behvarz Health Study Ministry of Principal Tehran University of present (Cohort study) Health Investigator Medical sciences low-cost, technology-assisted, risk- Co- 2013- based and integrated care delivery Ministry of Tehran University of Principal present programme to prevent serious health Medical sciences Investigator cardiovascular events in rural Iran Johns 2013- Estimating Burden of Afghan Principal Johns Hopkins Hopkins present refugees in Iran Investigator University University 2014- Reengineering of health system in Ministry of Principal Kurdistan University of present Iran ( Saqqez study) Health Investigator Medical Sciences, Iran
Publications
Papers:
1. Lim SS, Gaziano TA, Gakidou E, Reddy KS, Farzadfar F, Lozano R, Rodgers A. Prevention of cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals in low-income and middle-income countries: health effects and costs. Lancet. 2007 Dec 15;370 (9604):2054-62. Epub 2007 Dec 11.
2. Farzadfar F. Estimated health effects of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic on Tehran and Kerman populations. Arch Iran Med. 2010 Jan;13(1):82-3; author reply 83-4.
3. Danaei G, Finucane MM, Lin JK, Singh GM, Paciorek CJ, Cowan MJ, Farzadfar F, Stevens GA, Lim SS, Riley LM, Ezzati M. National, regional, and global trends in systolic blood pressure since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 786 country-years and 5·4 million participants. Lancet. 2011 Feb 12;377(9765):568-77. Epub 2011 Feb 3.
4. Finucane MM, Stevens GA, Cowan MJ, Danaei G, Lin JK, Paciorek CJ, Singh GM, Gutierrez HR, Lu Y, Bahalim AN, Farzadfar F, Riley LM, Ezzati M. .National, regional, and global trends in body-mass index since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 960 country-years and 9·1 million participants. Lancet. 2011 Feb 12;377(9765):557- 67. Epub 2011 Feb 3.
3 5. Farzadfar F, Finucane MM, Danaei G, Pelizzari PM, Cowan MJ, Paciorek CJ, Singh GM, Lin JK, Stevens GA, Riley LM, Ezzati M. National, regional, and global trends in serum total cholesterol since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 321 country-years and 3·0 million participants. Lancet. 2011 Feb 12;377(9765):578-86. Epub 2011 Feb 3.
6. Danaei G, Finucane MM, Lu Y, Singh GM, Cowan MJ, Paciorek CJ, Lin JK, Farzadfar F, Khang YH, Stevens GA, Rao M, Ali MK, Riley LM, Robinson CA, Ezzati M. National, regional, and global trends in fasting plasma glucose and diabetes prevalence since 1980: systematic analysis of health examination surveys and epidemiological studies with 370 country-years and 2·7 million participants. Lancet. 2011 Jul 2;378(9785):31-40. Epub 2011 Jun 24.
7. Farzadfar F, Murray CJL, Gakidou E, Bossert T, Namdaritabar H, Alikhani S, Moradi G, Delavari A, Jamshidi H, Ezzati M. Can rural primary healthcare manage noncommunicable diseases and risk factors? Evaluation of the effect of Behvarz system on diabetes and hypertension management in Iran. Lancet. 2012 Jan 7;379(9810):47-54. Epub 2011 Dec 9.
8. Farzadfar F, Danaei G, Namdaritabar H, Rajaratnam JK, Marcus JR, Khosravi A, Alikhani S, Murray CJL, Ezzati M. National and Subnational mortality effects of metabolic risk factors and smoking in Iran: comparative risk assessment. Popul Health Metr. 2011 Oct 11;9(1):55.
9. Danaei G, Singh GM, Paciorek CJ, Finucane MM, Lin JK, Farzadfar F, Stevens GA, Cowan MJ, Riley LM, Lu Y, Rao M, Ezzati M. The global cardiovascular risk transition: associations of four metabolic risk factors with national income, urbanization, and western diet since 1980, Accepted in Plos Medicine, in press.
10. Donnor A, Farzadfar F, Flink G, Ezzati M. A global effect of water and sanitation on growth rate: An evidence from demographic health surveys.Submitted in Lancet.
11. Barofsky J, Chase C, Anekwe T, Farzadfar F. The economic effects of malaria eradication: Evidence from an intervention in Uganda. May 2011, PGDA Working Paper No. 70. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/pgda/working.htm
12. Singh, G.M., Danaei, G., Pelizzari, P.M., Lin, J.K., Cowan, M.J., Stevens, G.A., Farzadfar, F., Khang, Y.-H., Lu, Y., Riley, L.M., Lim, S.S., Ezzati, M. The age associations of blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose: Analysis of health examination surveys from international populations (2012) Circulation, 125 (18), pp. 2204-2211
13. Sepanlou, S.G., Farzadfar, F., Jafari, E., Danaei, G. Cardiovascular disease prevention using fixed dose pharmacotherapy in Iran: Updated meta-analyses and mortality estimation (2012) Archives of Iranian Medicine, 15 (9), pp. 531-537
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14. Shahraz, S., Barzanjeh, A., Bahari, A., Nadery, Y., Farzadfar, F., Beyranvand, M.R., Stason, W.B. The completeness of medical records to assess quality of hospital care: The case of acute myocardial infarction in a district-level general hospital in Iran (2012) Archives of Iranian Medicine, 15 (10), pp. 592-595.
15. Christopher JL Murray, Theo Vos, Rafael Lozano, Mohsen Naghavi, Abraham D Flaxman, Catherine Michaud, Majid Ezzati, Kenji Shibuya, Joshua A Salomon, Safa Abdalla, Victor Aboyans, Jerry Abraham, Ilana Ackerman, Rakesh Aggarwal, Stephanie Y Ahn, Mohammed K Ali, Mohammad A AlMazroa, Miriam Alvarado, H Ross Anderson, Laurie M Anderson, Kathryn G Andrews, Charles Atkinson, Larry M Baddour, Adil N Bahalim, Suzanne Barker-Collo, Lope H Barrero, David H Bartels, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Amanda Baxter, Michelle L Bell, Emelia J Benjamin, Derrick Bennett, Eduardo Bernabé, Kavi Bhalla, Bishal Bhandari, Boris Bikbov, Aref Bin Abdulhak, Gretchen Birbeck, James A Black, Hannah Blencowe, Jed D Blore, Fiona Blyth, Ian Bolliger, Audrey Bonaventure, Soufiane Boufous, Rupert Bourne, Michel Boussinesq, Tasanee Braithwaite, Carol Brayne, Lisa Bridgett, Simon Brooker, Peter Brooks, Traolach S Brugha, Claire Bryan-Hancock, Chiara Bucello, Rachelle Buchbinder, Geoffrey Buckle, Christine M Budke, Michael Burch, Peter Burney, Roy Burstein, Bianca Calabria, Benjamin Campbell, Charles E Canter, Hélène Carabin, Jonathan Carapetis, Loreto Carmona, Claudia Cella, Fiona Charlson, Honglei Chen, Andrew Tai-Ann Cheng, David Chou, Sumeet S Chugh, Luc E Coffeng, Steven D Colan, Samantha Colquhoun, K Colson, John Condon, Myles D Connor, Leslie T Cooper, Matthew Corriere, Monica Cortinovis, Karen Courville de Vaccaro, William Couser, Benjamin C Cowie, Michael H Criqui, Marita Cross, Kaustubh C Dabhadkar, Manu Dahiya, Nabila Dahodwala, James Damsere-Derry, Goodarz Danaei, Adrian Davis, Diego De Leo, Louisa Degenhardt, Robert Dellavalle, Allyne Delossantos, Julie Denenberg, Sarah Derrett, Don C Des Jarlais, Samath D Dharmaratne, Mukesh Dherani, Cesar Diaz- Torne, Helen Dolk, E Dorsey, Tim Driscoll, Herbert Duber, Beth Ebel, Karen Edmond, Alexis Elbaz, Suad Eltahir Ali, Holly Erskine, Patricia J Erwin, Patricia Espindola, Stalin E Ewoigbokhan, Farshad Farzadfar, Valery Feigin, David T Felson, Alize Ferrari, Cleusa P Ferri, Eric M Fèvre, Mariel M Finucane, Seth Flaxman, Louise Flood, Kyle Foreman, Mohammad H Forouzanfar, Francis Gerry R Fowkes, Marlene Fransen, Michael K Freeman, Belinda J Gabbe, Sherine E Gabriel, Emmanuela Gakidou, Hammad A Ganatra, Bianca Garcia, Flavio Gaspari, Richard F Gillum, Gerhard Gmel, Diego Gonzalez-Medina, Richard Gosselin, Rebecca Grainger, Bridget Grant, Justina Groeger, Francis Guillemin, David Gunnell, Ramyani Gupta, Juanita Haagsma, Holly Hagan, Yara A Halasa, Wayne Hall, Diana Haring Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (2013) The Lancet, 380(9859), pp.2197-2223 16. Stephen S Lim, Theo Vos, Abraham D Flaxman, Goodarz Danaei, Kenji Shibuya, Heather Adair-Rohani, Mohammad A AlMazroa, Markus Amann, H Ross Anderson, Kathryn G Andrews, Martin Aryee, Charles Atkinson, Loraine J
5 Bacchus, Adil N Bahalim, Kalpana Balakrishnan, John Balmes, Suzanne Barker- Collo, Amanda Baxter, Michelle L Bell, Jed D Blore, Fiona Blyth, Carissa Bonner, Guilherme Borges, Rupert Bourne, Michel Boussinesq, Michael Brauer, Peter Brooks, Nigel G Bruce, Bert Brunekreef, Claire Bryan-Hancock, Chiara Bucello, Rachelle Buchbinder, Fiona Bull, Richard T Burnett, Tim E Byers, Bianca Calabria, Jonathan Carapetis, Emily Carnahan, Zoe Chafe, Fiona Charlson, Honglei Chen, Jian Shen Chen, Andrew Tai-Ann Cheng, Jennifer Christine Child, Aaron Cohen, K Colson, Benjamin C Cowie, Sarah Darby, Susan Darling, Adrian Davis, Louisa Degenhardt, Frank Dentener, Don C Des Jarlais, Karen Devries, Mukesh Dherani, Eric L Ding, E Dorsey, Tim Driscoll, Karen Edmond, Suad Eltahir Ali, Rebecca E Engell, Patricia J Erwin, Saman Fahimi, Gail Falder, Farshad Farzadfar, Alize Ferrari, Mariel M Finucane, Seth Flaxman, Francis Gerry R Fowkes, Greg Freedman, Michael K Freeman, Emmanuela Gakidou, Santu Ghosh, Edward Giovannucci, Gerhard Gmel, Kathryn Graham, Rebecca Grainger, Bridget Grant, David Gunnell, Hialy R Gutierrez, Wayne Hall, Hans W Hoek, Anthony Hogan, H Dean Hosgood III, Damian Hoy, Howard Hu, Bryan J Hubbell, Sally J Hutchings, Sydney E Ibeanusi, Gemma L Jacklyn, Rashmi Jasrasaria, Jost B Jonas, Haidong Kan, John A Kanis, Nicholas Kassebaum, Norito Kawakami, Young-Ho Khang, Shahab Khatibzadeh, Jon-Paul Khoo, Cindy Kok, Francine Laden, Ratilal Lalloo, Qing Lan, Tim Lathlean, Janet L Leasher, James Leigh, Yang Li, John Kent Lin, Steven E Lipshultz, Stephanie London, Rafael Lozano, Yuan Lu, Joelle Mak, Reza Malekzadeh, Leslie Mallinger, Wagner Marcenes, Lyn March, Robin Marks, Randall Martin, Paul McGale, John McGrath, Sumi Mehta, Ziad A Memish, George A Mensah, Tony R Merriman, Renata Micha, Catherine Michaud, Vinod Mishra, Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah, Ali A Mokdad, Lidia Morawska, Dariush Mozaffarian, Tasha Murphy, Mohsen Naghavi, Bruce Neal, Paul K Nelson, Joan Miquel Nolla, Rosana Norman, Casey Olives, Saad B Omer, Jessica Orchard, Richard Osborne, Bart Ostro, Andrew Page, Kiran D Pandey, Charles DH Parry, Erin Passmore, Jayadeep Patra, Neil Pearce, Pamela M Pelizzari A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (2013) The Lancet, 380(9859), pp. 2224-2260
17. Theo Vos, Abraham D Flaxman, Mohsen Naghavi, Rafael Lozano, Catherine Michaud, Majid Ezzati, Kenji Shibuya, Joshua A Salomon, Safa Abdalla, Victor Aboyans, Jerry Abraham, Ilana Ackerman, Rakesh Aggarwal, Stephanie Y Ahn, Mohammed K Ali, Mohammad A AlMazroa, Miriam Alvarado, H Ross Anderson, Laurie M Anderson, Kathryn G Andrews, Charles Atkinson, Larry M Baddour, Adil N Bahalim, Suzanne Barker-Collo, Lope H Barrero, David H Bartels, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Amanda Baxter, Michelle L Bell, Emelia J Benjamin, Derrick Bennett, Eduardo Bernabé, Kavi Bhalla, Bishal Bhandari, Boris Bikbov, Aref Bin Abdulhak, Gretchen Birbeck, James A Black, Hannah Blencowe, Jed D Blore, Fiona Blyth, Ian Bolliger, Audrey Bonaventure, Soufiane Boufous, Rupert Bourne, Michel Boussinesq, Tasanee Braithwaite, Carol Brayne, Lisa Bridgett, Simon Brooker, Peter Brooks, Traolach S Brugha, Claire Bryan- Hancock, Chiara Bucello, Rachelle Buchbinder, Geoffrey Buckle, Christine M
6 Budke, Michael Burch, Peter Burney, Roy Burstein, Bianca Calabria, Benjamin Campbell, Charles E Canter, Hélène Carabin, Jonathan Carapetis, Loreto Carmona, Claudia Cella, Fiona Charlson, Honglei Chen, Andrew Tai-Ann Cheng, David Chou, Sumeet S Chugh, Luc E Coffeng, Steven D Colan, Samantha Colquhoun, K Colson, John Condon, Myles D Connor, Leslie T Cooper, Matthew Corriere, Monica Cortinovis, Karen Courville de Vaccaro, William Couser, Benjamin C Cowie, Michael H Criqui, Marita Cross, Kaustubh C Dabhadkar, Manu Dahiya, Nabila Dahodwala, James Damsere-Derry, Goodarz Danaei, Adrian Davis, Diego De Leo, Louisa Degenhardt, Robert Dellavalle, Allyne Delossantos, Julie Denenberg, Sarah Derrett, Don C Des Jarlais, Samath D Dharmaratne, Mukesh Dherani, Cesar Diaz-Torne, Helen Dolk, E Dorsey, Tim Driscoll, Herbert Duber, Beth Ebel, Karen Edmond, Alexis Elbaz, Suad Eltahir Ali, Holly Erskine, Patricia J Erwin, Patricia Espindola, Stalin E Ewoigbokhan, Farshad Farzadfar, Valery Feigin, David T Felson, Alize Ferrari, Cleusa P Ferri, Eric M Fèvre, Mariel M Finucane, Seth Flaxman, Louise Flood, Kyle Foreman, Mohammad H Forouzanfar, Francis Gerry R Fowkes, Richard Franklin, Marlene Fransen, Michael K Freeman, Belinda J Gabbe, Sherine E Gabriel, Emmanuela Gakidou, Hammad A Ganatra, Bianca Garcia, Flavio Gaspari, Richard F Gillum, Gerhard Gmel, Richard Gosselin, Rebecca Grainger, Justina Groeger, Francis Guillemin, David Gunnell, Ramyani Gupta, Juanita Haagsma, Holly Hagan, Yara A Halasa, Wayne Hall, Diana Haring, Josep Maria Haro, James E Harrison Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (2013) The Lancet, 380(9859), pp. 2163-2196
18. Mariachiara Di Cesare, Young-Ho Khang, Perviz Asaria, Tony Blakely, Melanie J Cowan, Farshad Farzadfar, Ramiro Guerrero, Nayu Ikeda, Catherine Kyobutungi, Kelias P Msyamboza, Sophal Oum, John W Lynch, Michael G Marmot, Majid Ezzati Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses (2013) The Lancet, 381(9866), pp. 585-597
19. Goodarz Danaei, Gitanjali M Singh, Christopher J Paciorek, John K Lin, Melanie J Cowan, Mariel M Finucane, Farshad Farzadfar, Gretchen A Stevens, Leanne M Riley, Yuan Lu, Mayuree Rao, Majid Ezzati The Global Cardiovascular Risk Transition Associations of Four Metabolic Risk Factors with National Income, Urbanization, and Western Diet in 1980 and 2008 (2013) Circulation, 127(14), pp. 1493-1502
20. Farshad Farzadfar, Goodarz Danaei, Hengameh Namdaritabar, Julie Knoll Rajaratnam, Jacob R Marcus, Ardeshir Khosravi, Siamak Alikhani, Christopher JL Murray, Majid Ezzati National and subnational mortality effects of metabolic risk factors and smoking in Iran: a comparative risk assessment (2013) The Lancet, 381, pp. S47 21. Fatemeh Ardeshir Larijani, Mahboubeh Parsaeian, Seyed Mohammad Kalantar Motamedi, Ardeshir Khosravi, Farshad Farzadfar, Bagher Larijani National trends in mortality attributable to metabolic risk factors in Iran
7 (2013) The Lancet, 381, pp. S79
22. Gitanjali M Singh, Goodarz Danaei, Farshad Farzadfar, Gretchen A Stevens, Mark Woodward, David Wormser, Stephen Kaptoge, Gary Whitlock, Qing Qiao, Sarah Lewington, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Stephen Vander Hoorn, Carlene MM Lawes, Mohammed K Ali, Dariush Mozaffarian, Majid Ezzati, Global Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases Collaborating Group, Asia-Pacific Cohort Studies Collaboration, Emerging Risk Factor Collaboration, Prospective Studies Collaboration The age-specific quantitative effects of metabolic risk factors on cardiovascular diseases and diabetes: a pooled analysis (2013) PloS one, 8 (7), pp. e65174
23. Shahab Khatibzadeh, Farshad Farzadfar, John Oliver, Majid Ezzati, Andrew Moran Worldwide risk factors for heart failure: A systematic review and pooled analysis (2013) International journal of cardiology, 168 (2), pp. 1186-1194
24. Reza Malekzadeh, Alireza Sadjadi, Mohammadh Derakhshan, Abbas Yazdanbod, Majid Boreiri, Mahboobeh Parsaeian, Masoud Babaei, Masoomeh Alimohammadian, Fatemeh Samadi, Arash Etemadi, Farhad Pourfarzi, Emad Ahmadi, Alireza Delavari, Farhad Islami, Farshad Farzadfar, Masoud Sotoudeh, Arash Nikmanesh, Behroozz Alizadeh, Geertruidah De Bock Hookah and opium: two risk factors of gastric cancer and its precancerous lesions-a cohort study (2013) journal of gastroenterology and hepatology, 28, pp. 83-83
25. John Powles, Saman Fahimi, Renata Micha, Shahab Khatibzadeh, Peilin Shi, Majid Ezzati, Rebecca E Engell, Stephen S Lim, Goodarz Danaei, Dariush Mozaffarian, Tim E Byers, Edward Giovannucci, Stephanie Smith-Warner, Ibrahim Elmadfa, Shadi Kalantarian, Mayuree Rao, Pattra Wirojratana, Kathryn G Andrews, Paul Elliott, Ian Brown, John Britton, Andrew Fogarty, Mary Anne Land, Sarah Lewis, Tricia McKeever, Bruce Neal, Marga C Ocké, Jacqui Webster, Pamela A Abbott, Morteza Abdollahi, Enrique O Abeyá Gilardon, Habibul Ahsan, Mohannad Abed Alfattah Al Nsour, Suad N Al-Hooti, Carukshi Arambepola, Hubert Barennes, Simon Barquera, Ana Baylin, Wulf Becker, Peter Bjerregaard, Lesley T Bourne, Neville Calleja, Mario V Capanzana, Katia Castetbon, Hsing-Yi Chang, Yu Chen, Melanie J Cowan, Stefaan De Henauw, Heléne Enghardt Barbieri, Farshad Farzadfar, Dulitha N Fernando, Aida Filipovic Hadziomeragic, Regina M Fisberg, Simon Forsyth, Didier Garriguet, Jean-Michel Gaspoz, Dorothy Gauci, Brahmam NV Ginnela, Idris Guessous, Martin C Gulliford, Wilbur Hadden, Christian Haerpfer, Daniel J Hoffman, Anahita Houshiar-rad, Inge Huybrechts, Nahla C Hwalla, Hajah Masni Ibrahim, Manami Inoue, Maria D Jackson, Lars Johansson, Lital Keinan-Boker, Cho-il Kim, Eda Koksal, Hae-Jeung Lee, Yanping Li, Nur Indrawaty Lipoeto, Guansheng Ma, Yasuhiro Matsumura, Stephen T McGarvey, Chan Mei Fen, Gert BM Mensink, Rafael A Monge-Rojas, Abdulrahman Obaid Musaiger, Balakrishna Nagalla, Androniki Naska, Marga C Ocke, Maciej Oltarzewski,
8 Philippos Orfanos, Marja-Leena Ovaskainen, Wen-Harn Pan, Demosthenes B Panagiotakos, Gulden Ayla Pekcan, Stefka Petrova, Noppawan Piaseu, Christos Pitsavos, Luz Gladys Posada, Leanne M Riley, Luz Maria Sánchez-Romero, Rusidah BT Selamat, Rosely Sichieri, Chansimaly Simmala, Laufey Steingrimsdottir, Gillian Swan, Lucjan Szponar, Heli Tapanainen, Robert Templeton, Anastasia Thanopoulou, Holmfridur Thorgeirsdóttir, Inga Thorsdottir, Antonia Trichopoulou, Shoichiro Tsugane, Aida Turrini, Sirje Vaask, J Lennert Veerman, Nowak Verena, Anna Waskiewicz, Sahar Zaghloul, Gábor Zajkás Global, regional and national sodium intakes in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis of 24 h urinary sodium excretion and dietary surveys worldwide (2013) BMJ open, 3(12), pp. e003733
26. Alireza Sadjadi, Mohammad H Derakhshan, Abbas Yazdanbod, Majid Boreiri, Mahbubeh Parsaeian, Masoud Babaei, Masoomeh Alimohammadian, Fatemeh Samadi, Arash Etemadi, Farhad Pourfarzi, Emad Ahmadi, Alireza Delavari, Farhad Islami, Farshad Farzadfar, Masoud Sotoudeh, Arash Nikmanesh, Behrooz Z Alizadeh, Geertruida H de Bock, Reza Malekzadeh Neglected role of hookah and opium in gastric carcinogenesis: A cohort study on risk factors and attributable fractions (2014) International Journal of Cancer, 134 (1), pp. 181-188
27. Farshad Farzadfar , Alireza Delavari, Reza Malekzadeh, Hamid Reza Jamshidi, Bagher Larijani NASBOD 2013: Design, definitions, and metrics (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (1), pp. 7-12
28. N Peykari, SG Sepanlou, S Djalalinia, A Kasaeian, M Parsaeian, A Ahmadvand, J Koohpayehzadeh, B Damari, HR Jamshidi, B Larijani, F Farzadfar National and Sub-national Prevalence, Trend, and Burden of Metabolic Risk Factors (MRFs) in Iran: 1990-2013, Study Protocol. (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (1), pp. 54-61
29. H Amini, M Shamsipour, MH Sowlat, M Parsaeian, A Kasaeian, MS Hassanvand, H Kashani, R Saeedi, M Mosaferi, P Nowrouz, E Ahmadnezhad, K Rabiei, A Mesdaghinia, M Yunesian, F Farzadfar National and Sub-national Environmental Burden of Disease in Iran from 1990 to 2013-Study Profile. (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (1), pp. 62-70
30. Mahboubeh Parsaeian, Farshad Farzadfar, Hojjat Zeraati, Mahmood Mahmoudi, Gelareh Rahimighazikalayeh, Iman Navidi, Kalhori SR Niakan, Kazem Mohammad, Khaledi M Jafari Application of Spatio-temporal Model to Estimate Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors in Iran 1990-2013. (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (1), pp. 28-33
31. Kalhori SR Niakan, Batool Tayefi, Atefe Noori, Marziye Mearaji, Shadi
9 Rahimzade, Elham Zandian, Hamid Ravaghi, Sadaf Ghajarieh Sepanlou, Farshad Sharifi, Farshad Farzadfar Inpatient Data, Inevitable Need for Policy Making at National and Sub-national levels: A Lesson Learned from NASBOD. (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (1), pp. 16-21
32. R Kelishadi, S Hovsepian, M Qorbani, F Jamshidi, Z Fallah, S Djalalinia, N Peykari, A Delavari, F Farzadfar National and sub-national prevalence, trend, and burden of cardiometabolic risk factors in Iranian children and adolescents, 1990-2013. (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (1), pp. 71-80
33. Hamideh Salimzadeh PhD, Fatemeh Ardeshir Larijani MD, Shifteh Abedian MD, Seyed Mohammad Kalantar Motamedi MD,Mohammad Masoud Malekzadeh MD, Hamid Mohaghegh MD, Anahita Sadeghi MD, Sadaf G. Sepanlou MD MPH PhDAlireza Delavari MD1, Mehdi Saberi-Firoozi MD, Homayoun Vahedi MD, Ehsan Rezaei Darzi BSc , Farshad Farzadfar MD The Trend of National and Sub-national Burden of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases in Iran 1990 to 2013; Study Protocol (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (1), pp. 33-53
34. Amir Kasaeian, Mohammad Reza Eshraghian, Foroushani A Rahimi, Kalhori SR Niakan, Kazem Mohammad, Farshad Farzadfar Bayesian autoregressive multilevel modeling of burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors in iran 1990-2013. (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (1), pp. 22-27
35. Mahboubeh Parsaeian MSc PhD Candidate, Farshad Farzadfar MD MPH DSc, PhD Candidate, BS Parinaz Mehdipour, BS Ali Sheidaei, BS Anita Mansouri, Shirin Djalalinia MSc PhD Candidate Levels and Trends of Child and Adult Mortality Rates in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1990–2013; Protocol of the NASBOD Study (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (3), pp. 176
36. M Modirian, S Rahimzadeh, Z Cheraghi, A Khosravi, H Salimzadeh, F Kompani, N Rezaei, M Qorbani, A Delavari, M Moradi-Lakeh, F Farzadfar Quality evaluation of national cancer registry system in iran: study protocol. (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (3), pp. 193-197
37. Shayesteh Hajizadeh MSc MPH PhD Candidate1, Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi MD4, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh MD5, Alireza Khajavi MSc1, Farahnaz Farzadfar MD6, Elham Zandian MSc1, Owais Raza MBBS PhD Candidate1, Farshad Farzadfar The Trend of National and Subnational Burden of Maternal Condi-tions in Iran from 1990 to 2013: The Study Protocol (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (3), pp. 198
38. Morteza Naserbakht MD1, Shirin Djalalinia MSc PhD Candidate2,, Mehri
10 Gholami MD5, Mehrdad Eftekhar Ardabili MD1, Seyed Vahid Shariat MD1, Mozhgan Taban MSc1, Ahmad Hajebi MD1, Fatemeh Behtaj MD5, Seyedeh Arezoo Sajadi MD5, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar MD MPH6, F Farzadfar National and Sub-national Prevalence, Trend, and Burden of Men-tal Disorders and Substance Abuse in Iran: 1990–2013, Study Protocol (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (3), pp. 182
39. A Ghasemian, A Ataie-Jafari, S Khatibzadeh, M Mirarefin, L Jafari, S Nejatinamini, M Parsaeian, N Peykari, S Sobhani, E Jamshidbeygi, HR Jamshidi, M Ebrahimi, K Etemad, M Moradi-Lakeh, B Larijani, F Farzadfar National and Sub-national Burden of Chronic Diseases Attributable to Lifestyle Risk Factors in Iran 1990-2013; Study Protocol. (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (3), pp. 146-158
40. A Noori, M Shokoohi, B Moazen, G Moradi, S Naderimagham, S Hajizadeh, Zangeneh A Zohouri, MM Gouya, F Farzadfar National and Sub-national Burden of Infectious Diseases in Iran, 1990 to 2013: The Study Protocol. (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (3), pp. 169-175
41. Mahboubeh Parsaeian MSc PhD Candidate, Younes Mohammadi MSc PhD Candidate, Farshad Farzadfar MD MPH DSc Application of Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) in Estimating Under-five Mortality Levels and Trends in Iran 1990–2013, Study Protocol (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (3), pp. 189
42. S Shoaee, A Ghasemian, B Najafi, A Kasaeian, F Farzadfar, H Hessari National and Sub-national Burden of Oral Diseases in Iran: 1990-2013, Study Protocol. (2014) Archives of Iranian medicine, 17 (3), pp. 159-168
43. Arash ManafiRad1, Farshad Farzadfar2, Laleh Habibi3, Morteza Azhdarzadeh3, Haniyeh Aghaverdi4, Khadijeh H. Tehrani4, Mina Lotfi3, Patrick G. Kehoe5, Ali Sheidaei6, Anoosheh Ghasemian2, Ehsan Rezaei Darzi2, Ramin Mahmoodi7, Morteza Mahmoudi1, 8, 9 Is Amyloid-β an Innocent Bystander and Marker in Alzheimer's Disease? Is the Liability of Multivalent Cation Homeostasis and its Influence on Amyloid-β Function the Real Mechanism? (2014) Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 17 (3), pp.
44. Haidong Wang, Chelsea A Liddell, Matthew M Coates, Meghan D Mooney, Carly E Levitz, Austin E Schumacher, Henry Apfel, Marissa Iannarone, Bryan Phillips, Katherine T Lofgren, Logan Sandar, Rob E Dorrington, Ivo Rakovac,
11 Troy A Jacobs, Xiaofeng Liang, Maigeng Zhou, Jun Zhu, Gonghuan Yang, Yanping Wang, Shiwei Liu, Yichong Li, Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren, Semaw Ferede Abera, Ibrahim Abubakar, Tom Achoki, Ademola Adelekan, Zanfina Ademi, Zewdie Aderaw Alemu, Peter J Allen, Mohammad AbdulAziz AlMazroa, Elena Alvarez, Adansi A Amankwaa, Azmeraw T Amare, Walid Ammar, Palwasha Anwari, Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham, Majed Masoud Asad, Reza Assadi, Amitava Banerjee, Sanjay Basu, Neeraj Bedi, Tolesa Bekele, Michelle L Bell, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Jed Blore, Berrak Bora Basara, Soufiane Boufous, Nicholas Breitborde, Nigel G Bruce, Linh Ngoc Bui, Jonathan R Carapetis, Rosario Cárdenas, David O Carpenter, Valeria Caso, Ruben Estanislao Castro, Ferrán Catalá-Lopéz, Alanur Cavlin, Xuan Che, Peggy Pei-Chia Chiang, Rajiv Chowdhury, Costas A Christophi, Ting-Wu Chuang, Massimo Cirillo, Iuri da Costa Leite, Karen J Courville, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Adrian Davis, Anand Dayama, Kebede Deribe, Samath D Dharmaratne, Mukesh K Dherani, Uğur Dilmen, Eric L Ding, Karen M Edmond, Sergei Petrovich Ermakov, Farshad Farzadfar, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Daniel Obadare Fijabi, Nataliya Foigt, Mohammad H Forouzanfar, Ana C Garcia, Johanna M Geleijnse, Bradford D Gessner, Ketevan Goginashvili, Philimon Gona, Atsushi Goto, Hebe N Gouda, Mark A Green, Karen Fern Greenwell, Harish Chander Gugnani, Rahul Gupta, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Mouhanad Hammami, Hilda L Harb, Simon Hay, Mohammad T Hedayati, H Dean Hosgood, Damian G Hoy, Bulat T Idrisov, Farhad Islami, Samaya Ismayilova, Vivekanand Jha, Guohong Jiang, Jost B Jonas, Knud Juel, Edmond Kato Kabagambe, Dhruv S Kazi, Andre Pascal Kengne, Maia Kereselidze, Yousef Saleh Khader, Shams Eldin Ali Hassan Khalifa, Young-Ho Khang, Daniel Kim, Yohannes Kinfu, Jonas M Kinge, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Soewarta Kosen, Barthelemy Kuate Defo, G Anil Kumar, Kaushalendra Kumar, Ravi B Kumar, Taavi Lai, Qing Lan, Anders Larsson, Jong-Tae Lee, Mall Leinsalu, Stephen S Lim, Steven E Lipshultz, Giancarlo Logroscino, Paulo A Lotufo, Raimundas Lunevicius, Ronan Anthony Lyons, Stefan Ma, Abbas Ali Mahdi, Melvin Barrientos Marzan, Mohammad Taufiq Mashal, Tasara T Mazorodze, John J McGrath, Ziad A Memish, Walter Mendoza, George A Mensah, Atte Meretoja, Ted R Miller, Edward J Mills, Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad, Ali H Mokdad, Lorenzo Monasta, Marcella Montico, Ami R Moore Global, regional, and national levels of neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (2014) The Lancet, 381, pp. S47
45. Nicholas J Kassebaum, Amelia Bertozzi-Villa, Megan S Coggeshall, Katya A Shackelford, Caitlyn Steiner, Kyle R Heuton, Diego Gonzalez-Medina, Ryan Barber, Chantal Huynh, Daniel Dicker, Tara Templin, Timothy M Wolock, Ayse Abbasoglu Ozgoren, Foad Abd-Allah, Semaw Ferede Abera, Tom Achoki, Ademola Adelekan, Zanfina Ademi, Arsène Kouablan Adou, José C Adsuar, Emilie E Agardh, Dickens Akena, Deena Alasfoor, Zewdie Aderaw Alemu, Rafael Alfonso-Cristancho, Samia Alhabib, Raghib Ali, Mazin J Al Kahbouri, François Alla, Peter J Allen, Mohammad A AlMazroa, Ubai Alsharif, Elena Alvarez, Nelson Alvis-Guzmán, Adansi A Amankwaa, Azmeraw T Amare,
12 Hassan Amini, Walid Ammar, Carl AT Antonio, Palwasha Anwari, Johan Ärnlöv, Valentina S Arsic Arsenijevic, Ali Artaman, Majed Masoud Asad, Rana J Asghar, Reza Assadi, Lydia S Atkins, Alaa Badawi, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Arindam Basu, Sanjay Basu, Justin Beardsley, Neeraj Bedi, Tolesa Bekele, Michelle L Bell, Eduardo Bernabe, Tariku J Beyene, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Aref Bin Abdulhak, Jed Blore, Berrak Bora Basara, Dipan Bose, Nicholas Breitborde, Rosario Cárdenas, Carlos A Castañeda-Orjuela, Ruben Estanislao Castro, Ferrán Catalá-López, Alanur Cavlin, Jung-Chen Chang, Xuan Che, Costas A Christophi, Sumeet S Chugh, Massimo Cirillo, Samantha M Colquhoun, Leslie Trumbull Cooper, Cyrus Cooper, Iuri da Costa Leite, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Adrian Davis, Anand Dayama, Louisa Degenhardt, Diego De Leo, Borja del Pozo-Cruz, Kebede Deribe, Muluken Dessalegn, Gabrielle A Deveber, Samath D Dharmaratne, Uğur Dilmen, Eric L Ding, Rob E Dorrington, Tim R Driscoll, Sergei Petrovich Ermakov, Alireza Esteghamati, Emerito Jose A Faraon, Farshad Farzadfar, Manuela Mendonca Felicio, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Graça Maria Ferreira de Lima, Mohammad H Forouzanfar, Elisabeth B França, Lynne Gaffikin, Ketevan Gambashidze, Fortuné Gbètoho Gankpé, Ana C Garcia, Johanna M Geleijnse, Katherine B Gibney, Maurice Giroud, Elizabeth L Glaser, Ketevan Goginashvili, Philimon Gona, Dinorah González-Castell, Atsushi Goto, Hebe N Gouda, Harish Chander Gugnani, Rahul Gupta, Rajeev Gupta, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Mouhanad Hammami, Graeme J Hankey, Hilda L Harb, Rasmus Havmoeller, Simon Hay, Ileana B Heredia Pi, Hans W Hoek, H Dean Hosgood, Damian G Hoy, Abdullatif Husseini, Bulat T Idrisov, Kaire Innos, Manami Inoue, Kathryn H Jacobsen, Eiman Jahangir, Sun Ha Jee, Paul N Jensen, Vivekanand Jha, Guohong Jiang, Knud Juel, Edmond Kato Kabagambe, Haidong Kan, Nadim E Karam, André Karch, Corine Kakizi Karema, Anil Kaul, Norito Kawakami, Konstantin Kazanjan, Dhruv S Kazi, Andrew G Kemp, Andre Pascal Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (2014) The Lancet, 381, pp. S47
46. Marie Ng, Tom Fleming, Margaret Robinson, Blake Thomson, Nicholas Graetz, Christopher Margono, Erin C Mullany, Stan Biryukov, Cristiana Abbafati, Semaw Ferede Abera, Jerry P Abraham, Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh, Tom Achoki, Fadia S AlBuhairan, Zewdie A Alemu, Rafael Alfonso, Mohammed K Ali, Raghib Ali, Nelson Alvis Guzman, Walid Ammar, Palwasha Anwari, Amitava Banerjee, Simon Barquera, Sanjay Basu, Derrick A Bennett, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Jed Blore, Norberto Cabral, Ismael Campos Nonato, Jung-Chen Chang, Rajiv Chowdhury, Karen J Courville, Michael H Criqui, David K Cundiff, Kaustubh C Dabhadkar, Lalit Dandona, Adrian Davis, Anand Dayama, Samath D Dharmaratne, Eric L Ding, Adnan M Durrani, Alireza Esteghamati, Farshad Farzadfar, Derek FJ Fay, Valery L Feigin, Abraham Flaxman, Mohammad H Forouzanfar, Atsushi Goto, Mark A Green, Rajeev Gupta, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Graeme J Hankey, Heather C Harewood, Rasmus Havmoeller, Simon Hay, Lucia Hernandez, Abdullatif Husseini, Bulat T Idrisov, Nayu Ikeda, Farhad Islami, Eiman Jahangir, Simerjot K Jassal, Sun Ha Jee, Mona Jeffreys, Jost B Jonas, Edmond K Kabagambe, Shams Eldin Ali Hassan Khalifa, Andre Pascal Kengne,
13 Yousef Saleh Khader, Young-Ho Khang, Daniel Kim, Ruth W Kimokoti, Jonas M Kinge, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Soewarta Kosen, Gene Kwan, Taavi Lai, Mall Leinsalu, Yichong Li, Xiaofeng Liang, Shiwei Liu, Giancarlo Logroscino, Paulo A Lotufo, Yuan Lu, Jixiang Ma, Nana Kwaku Mainoo, George A Mensah, Tony R Merriman, Ali H Mokdad, Joanna Moschandreas, Mohsen Naghavi, Aliya Naheed, Devina Nand, KM Narayan, Erica Leigh Nelson, Marian L Neuhouser, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Samuel O Oti, Andrea Pedroza, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Nobhojit Roy, Uchechukwu Sampson, Hyeyoung Seo, Sadaf G Sepanlou, Kenji Shibuya, Rahman Shiri, Ivy Shiue, Gitanjali M Singh, Jasvinder A Singh, Vegard Skirbekk, Nicolas JC Stapelberg, Lela Sturua, Bryan L Sykes, Martin Tobias, Bach X Tran, Leonardo Trasande, Hideaki Toyoshima, Steven van de Vijver, Tommi J Vasankari, J Lennert Veerman, Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez, Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov, Stein Emil Vollset, Theo Vos, Claire Wang, Sharon XiaoRong Wang, Elisabete Weiderpass, Andrea Werdecker, Jonathan L Wright, Y Claire Yang, Hiroshi Yatsuya, Jihyun Yoon, Seok-Jun Yoon, Yong Zhao, Maigeng Zhou, Shankuan Zhu, Alan D Lopez, Christopher JL Murray, Emmanuela Gakidou Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (2014) The Lancet, 381, pp. S47
47. Zhila Maghbooli, Parvin Pasalar , Abbasali Keshtkar , Farshad Farzadfar and Bagher Larijani Predictive factors of diabetic complications: a possible link between family history of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy (2014) Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders, 13, pp. 1-5
Authored Books:
1. The Family Physician Performance Monitoring (ISBN 964-7657-92-7)
2. The Health System Managers’ Performance Monitoring (ISBN 964-7657-98-6)
3. The Tools and Techniques for health system reform
4. The Utilization of health Services in I.R.IRAN (ISBN964-6711-27-8)
5. The Refferal system and Family Physician guidelines (ISBN964-7657-88-9)
Translated books:
Translated the following books from English to Farsi:
1. The Design and evaluation of maternal mortality programs (by Deborah Maine, Murat Z. Akalin, Victoria M. Ward, Angela Kamara) ISBN 964-93019-2-5.
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2. Design and implementation of health information system (by Theo Lippeveld, Rainer Sauerborn, Claude Bodart) ISBN 92 4 1561998.
3. Module on Decentralization of Health Systems: Sharing Resources and Responsibilities Training , Thomas J. Bossert, Ph.D. International Health Systems Group,Harvard School of Public Health. Published in Medicine and development magazine.
Career Interests
1- Health metrics 2- Burden of diseases, risk factors, and injuries 3- Cost Analysis 4- Health economics 5- Monitoring and Evaluation of Health Program 6- Health management and Health policy 7- NCDs Related Researches
References
Dr. Majid Ezzati MEng PhD. Chair in Global Environmental, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Health School of Public Health, Imperial college, London. Telephone: Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 0767 Fax: Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 3193 E-mail: [email protected]
Dr Christopher Murray, MD, DPhil. Institute Director Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation University of Washington Box #358116, Adjunct Professor of Population Policy, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School Public Health Telephone: (206) 897-2815 Fax: (206) 897-2899 Email: [email protected]
Dr Tomas Bossert, PhD, Professor of health Policy, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School Public Health. Telephone: 617-432-1148 email: [email protected]
Dr. H. Jamshidi, Associate professor of pharmacology, Shahid Beheshti University of Mrdical Sciences. Telephone: 21-88360160 E-mail: [email protected]
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