Research Center for Health Sciences
The Research Center for Health Sciences (RCHS), is a government-owned institute that has officially started its activities since 2008 under the auspices of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services. The center focuses on the development of health sciences and disease prevention.
The center's main mission is to conduct research and propose research-based measures to promote community health as well as to conduct educational activities to stimulate research.
Improving the level of public health, environmental health and occupational health, reducing the burden of disease in society, production and promotion of knowledge in the field of health sciences and providing specialized services, helping to create and develop technology in health, training researchers and improving health culture in Iranian society are the main objectives of this research center.
The spirit of the center's activities is based on institutionalizing empathy, knowledge, training efficient researcher, meritocracy, customer orientation, observing ethical principles in research, maintaining dignity and basic health rights, especially for the needy strata of society.
History
The RCHHS was established in June 2008 based on the certificate of Honorable Deputy of Research and Technology of the Ministry of Health, Iran. Also, the statute of the center was approved by the University of Medical Sciences Development Council in 9 articles and one note in 2008.
After several years of remarkable activity and gaining outstanding scientific points, this center was definitely approved by the Honorable Council for the Development of Iranian Medical Universities in 2013.
The center is consistently recognized as the university's top center. Three other independent centers have sprung up from the RCHS, including the Non-Communicable Diseases Modeling Research Center, Social Determinants of Health Research Center and Center of Excellence for Occupational Health and Safety Research Center which have gained the principled agreement of the Iranian Health Ministry and are active.
With the establishment of the Research Institute of Health Sciences and Technology, the Health Sciences Research Center is currently operating under the auspices of the Health Science and Technology Research Institute.
Affiliation
Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
Goals and Vision
Vision
We intend that RCHS provides an appropriate foundation for innovation in conducting basic and applied researches in the field of public health. The ultimate goal of our research center is the promotion of public health.
Mission
The perspective of RCHS is the respect of motivations, activities, new ideas, inter-sectoral specialized collaborations, encouragement, and support of investigators in order to produce science, technology and empower the academic community in the national and international level for the promotion of the level of human knowledge in the field of health sciences.
Aims
- Need assessment and determine the research priorities in the field of health science at the regional and national and international levels.
- Helping to run the programs regarding on vision of health section in Iran and upstream policies.
- Detect and support of research motivations.
- Paving the way for research and innovation in health sciences.
- Development and utilization of human knowledge in the field of health sciences through technology development.
- Helping to self-sufficiency of the country in the areas of health technology.
- Helping to industrials, companies, institutions, and organizations for solving of problems in the field of disease prevention.
- Introduce the application areas of the results of health investigations.
- Suggest of policies regarding the development of research in health sciences.
- Help to develop national standards and evaluation criteria in the field of health sciences.
- Design and develop of specialized databases in the field of health sciences.
- Collaborations in presenting the achievements of health sciences
- Collaborations in training of efficient researchers
- Empowerment of researcher manpower in the field of health sciences
- Strengthening effective national and international communications
- Helping to specializing the researches
- Promote the required researches in the field of health sciences
- Strengthening the interdisciplinary researches
- Upgrade the journal of research in health sciences
- Agreeing with stakeholders on research priorities and directing the center's research activities in this direction
- Attracting the national and foreign resources, both human and financial, for development of research and technology.
- Helping to create culture for comprehensive participation and social responsibility of individuals regarding community health via applied researches
- Publication of books and scientific journals in the field of health sciences
- Providing the technical-specialized services to organizations, companies, factories, and governmental and non-governmental centers
- Implementation of research and consoling projects with cooperation of industrials, governmental and non-governmental organizations in order to solving the problems of other organizations
- Optimal use of the results of research projects In order to solve health problems in the regional and national level
- Organizing the organization and processes of the research center
Research Line
- Evaluating and controlling of workplace hazards
- Evaluating and controlling of the environment
- Modelling of health data
- Evaluating and modelling of interventions for health promotion
Members
Rostam Golmohammadi
Professor of Environmental Engineering
Amin Doosti-Irani
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Publishers
Contact Us
- Research Center for Health Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences,Hamadan, Iran Postal code: 65178-3-8736