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I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Preventive Neurology, Wolfson Institute of Population Health. I started my career at QMUL in July 2024. I will be working on an MRC-funded project to investigate the contribution of toxic metal pollutant exposure (lead, cadmium, and arsenic) to social and ethnic health inequalities in children and young adults in England.

I completed my PhD in epidemiology in January 2018 at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (Iran). Before that I got a master's in epidemiology at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Iran). My PhD research included working on a US cohort study (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis), using parametric G-formula developed by Robins et al. for assessing the causal effect of a time-varying exposure, appropriately adjusting for time-varying confounders affected by prior exposure. During my thesis, I have experienced data management and running advanced statistical analyses using SAS and Stata.

As of March 2018 I had a role of assistant professor at Lorestan University of Medical Sciences (Iran) for more than 6 years. This post allowed me to gain experience as principal and/or co-investigator of projects dealing with study design, statistical consulting, sampling methods, monitoring the projects, statistical analysis and modelling, reporting and publishing.

I have experience of teaching at Lorestan University of Medical Sciences courses such as Research Methodology, Principles of Epidemiology, and Statistical Methods in Epidemiology which has fortified my interpersonal and professional skills.

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