Professor Ahmad Hajebi

Director of Research Center for Addiction and Risky Behaviors Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Biography

Ahmad Hajebi served as the Director of the Iranian Mental Health Office, from 2007–13, and as the Director General of the Department for Mental Health and Substance Abuse in the Iranian Ministry of Health, from 2013–23. He has published many articles and book chapters, and designed and implemented national programs, such as the Iran National Suicide Register System, National Program of Self-care in the field of mental health, and national comprehensive mental and social health services which have been integrated into the primary Iranian healthcare system. He was one of the main investigators in the two rounds of Iran National Mental Health Survey (2010 and 2021) and Persian Youth Cohort Study (from 2016) and currently teaches community psychiatry to psychiatric residents.