Non-communicable Diseases Research Center

Year founded: 2016

The Non-communicable Diseases Research Center was founded in 2016 as an academic-research center to conduct research in non-communicable diseases and to utilize its academic and research achievements in health policy-making.

Research Priorities

• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Hypertension
• Cardiovascular disease
• Common cancers in Fars province
• Providing a model to help clinical decisions
• Determining the Geographic pathology of non-communicable diseases
• Prevalence and burden of pulmonary disease
• Metabolic syndrome

Honors:

• Ranked 1^st among the research centers of the clinical group with one to three years of activity in 2018
• 10th rank nationwide among health promotion centers in 2022
• Top ranking center in citations among the research centers at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
• Fourth place in terms of H-index among the research centers at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.

Director Alireza Mirahmadizadeh Associate Professor of Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology, School of Health Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center E-mail: mirahmadia@sums.ac.ir
Contact information: Non-communicable Disease Research Center 1st floor, Mohammad Rasoul Allah Research Tower, Khalili St. Shiraz, Iran   Tel.: +98 71 36122302 Fax: +98 71 36122302 E-mail: non-communicable-DRC@sums.ac.ir