Dr Reza Majdzadeh

Dr Reza Majdzadeh is the senior lecturer of Global Public Health at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. He was the head of Iran’s National Institute for Health Research and consulted with the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region on health systems and universal health coverage for 2 years. He was a professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Islamic Republic of Iran, and the director of the training and research centre in Bandar Abbas, a WHO collaborating centre on malaria management and planning.

Dr Majdzadeh has taught epidemiology and epidemiologic approach to malaria control in several training programmes where he became acquainted with various countries’ situations, mainly in the Eastern Mediterranean and African regions. Also, he revised and updated the training modules on “Epidemiologic approach in malaria control” published by WHO in 2013.

He has worked for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s malaria elimination programme as a senior consultant conducting crucial studies, including the Malaria Indicator Survey and the Malaria Program Review. In addition, as Coordinator of the Health Policymaking Council, he supported the development of the country’s health roadmap, which is one of the crucial strategic documents in the country’s health system. Dr Majdzadeh has received several research and educational prestigious recognitions and has more than 335 papers indexed in PubMed with an H-index of 67 in September 2022. One of his main focus in malaria elimination is the readiness of health systems and information systems concerning issues for the prevention of re-establishment of malaria, along with the evidence-informed policy making and community mobilization.