Department of Nutrition Research

 

The Department of Nutrition Research began its research activities in 1991 in various nutritional area. Since then, it has made steps towards providing information necessary for the policy-making organizations, ministries, and other related offices as well as the public in order to reach nutritional health. It also deals with the basic research and tools development in the field of human nutrition. The department benefits from the equipped research labs for Clinical chemistry and biochemistry, measuring trace elements (such as Zinc, Iron, Copper, etc.), measuring all vitamins, hematology, immunology, serology, microbiology, and cellular & molecular.

 

Vision

The Department seeks to improve community nutrition through conducting basic and applied research at both national and subnational levels.

 

Mission

The Department is trying to achieve the strategic findings, update data, and present them to the policymakers and administrative organizations, and other interested parties in food, nutrition, and health at both government and private sectors.

 

Goals

The Department pursues to design and initiate research projects in line with the priorities approved by the National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute in the following fields:

  • Food and Nutrition Assessment;
  • Identifying dietary patterns, practices and habits in various populations;
  • Studying socio-behavioral determinants of and aspects associated with nutritional status;
  • Performing validation studies of food consumption methods;
  • Studying the epidemiology of obesity and diet-related NCDs (Non-Communicable Diseases);
  • Scrutinizing on models for preventing diet-related diseases;
  • Improving the micronutrients status;
  • Operationalizing and modifying the lab determination methods of micronutrients;
  • Assessment of micronutrients nutrition in different population groups;
  • Developing and compiling the food composition table in Iran
  • Developing and running PhD-by-research Nutrition program

The Department is also collaborating in reviewing research proposals and manuscripts, organizing educational and research workshops for the academic staff members, researchers, and graduate students in various academic levels, running PhD by research

program in Nutrition, etc.

 

Bahareh Nikooyeh

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Associate Professor
Head of Department
Research interest: Micronutrients; Food Fortification; Nutrition Surveillance; Laboratory Methods; Nutritional Epidemiology and Statistics
nikooyeh11024@yahoo.com

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Tirang Reza Neyestani

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Professor
Research interest: Micronutrients Especially Vitamin D; Food Fortification; Nutrition Surveillance; Laboratory Methods; Nutritional Immunology and Biochemistry
neytr@yahoo.com

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Morteza Abdollahi

MD, MPH, Professor
morabd@yahoo.com

 

Maryam Amini

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Assistant Professor
Research interest: Validation of Food Consumption Data Collection Tools, Media Analysis Studies Related to Nutrition, Recipe Calculation, Environmental and Policy Changes Related to Healthy Eating
maramin2002@yahoo.com

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Samira Rabiei

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Assistant Professor
Research interest: Obesity (Especially Psychologically), Food Analysis (Recipe Calculation, Food Composition Table)
samirarabiei@yahoo.com

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Delaram Ghodsi

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Assistant Professor
Research interest: Food & Nutrition Security; Design & Evaluation of Nutritional Interventions; Food Environment (food price), Food Waste, Child Malnutrition
delaramghodsi@yahoo.com
d.ghodsi@sbmu.ac.ir

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Zahra Yari

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Assistant Professor
Research interest: Non-communicable diseases, Preventive Nutrition
Zahrayari_nut@yahoo.com

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Anahita Houshiarrad

MSc of Nutrition Sciences, Instructor
anahrad@yahoo.com

 

Mina Esmaeili

MSc of Nutrition Sciences, Instructor
mina_esmaeili@yahoo.com

 

Hamid Rasekhi

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Researcher
Research interest: Dietary Pattern, Food Composition Table, Questionnaire Development. Medical Data Science, Software/app Development
rasekhi.h@gmail.com

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Samira Ebrahimof

Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences, Researcher
Research interest: Vitamin D; Obesity; Childhood Nutrition; Iranian Traditional Medicine and Nutrition
ebrahimof@yahoo.com