Amirhossein Takian

Amirhossein Takian (MD MPH PhD FHEA) is Full Professor, Department Head of Global Health Policy, Director of Centre of Excellence for Global Health, and Vice-Dean for International Affairs at the School of Public Health (SPH)- Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran. Since January 2023, he is an elected member of STAC, Alliance for HSPR, WHO- Switzerland. He is a member of World Health Summit (WHS) Executive Committee since 2019; founding council member of Virchow Foundation for Global Health, Germany; Head of Health Sciences, Iran’s National Science Foundation (2024); Advisor to TUMS’ Chancellor in Health Policy; and Member of Supreme Council for Social Responsibility in Iran. Amir is a Member of the National Examination Board for Health Policy, Economics and Management, the MOHME- Iran; founding Chief Research Officer at the Health Equity Research Centre (HERC)- TUMS; and founding Head of TUMS’ Office for M8 Alliance cooperation since 2017. He was international president of 7th World Health Summit Regional Meeting, 2019, held in Kish Island, Iran.

Dr. Takian is an elected member of National Academy of Medical Sciences, Iran; a member of National Committee for Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases, MOHME, Iran; member of Steering Committee for National Health Assembly- Iran; Senior Advisor to the Secretariat of Supreme Council for Health & Food Security; the MoHME-Iran; member of advisory committee on health information technology (HIT), AcademyHealth- USA; founding member of Supreme Council for Health & Peace Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran; member of editorial board at the International Journal of Health Policy and Management; and Associate Editor at the International Journal of Public Health.

A physician by training, Prof. Takian has track record research in health policy analysis (H Index: 27) in the field of good governance, refugees’ health, evidence-based policymaking and eHealth. He has published over 200 peer reviewed journal articles, 25 books, 7 book chapters, and 24 commissioned national and international reports. Amir has been a principal investigator in several collaborative research projects at the national and international levels, with a value equivalent to over 7.0 million Euro. Dr. Takian has supervised/advised over 35 MSc and 70 PhD students, plus three post-doctorate fellows in Iran and other countries. He has been an invited keynote speaker in tens of global events, i.e. the United Nations, WHO, World Health Assembly, World Health Summit, PMAC, etc., and a frequent TED speaker. Prof. Takian was awarded National Figure for Social Responsibility and Professionalism (2024); outstanding international figure of the year, TUMS (2024); TUMS’ best researcher in 2023; best professor in 2022; the best educational national award of Iran in the field of medical sciences in 2017, the global AMEE award in 2018, the best teacher award of SPH-TUMS in 2019, and three times joint international figure of TUMS and Tehran University in 2019, 2021 and 2023. Dr. Takian is a lifetime fellow of Higher Education Academy of the United Kingdom. He is main author and Editor of the Reference Book of Health Policy in Iran (March 2021).