I was graduated from Zahedan School of Medicine in 1997 and worked in the field of public health in Sistan and Balouchestan Province, Iran for more than 2 decades. I have served as a medical doctor in a rural setting, district tuberculosis coordinator and as a manager of public health at the district and provincial level. After obtaining my Ph.D. degree in epidemiology from University of Western Australia in 2009, I was employed by Zahedan University of Medical Sciences as a member of academi