Recording the third set of the “SDH HERC Talk” lecture series was successfully concluded on Monday 27th of June, 2022.

This lecture series is being put together through the efforts of the Health Equity Research Center, as the only research center in our country focused on equity and also as the secretariat of the Social Determinants of Health Research Network of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran. This lecture series that focuses on social determinants of health (SDH) related subjects, aims to empower the population and also build a proper educational foundation for students, researchers, policy-makers, and all who are interested in such subjects; and we hope that through this, we may play a suitable part in publicizing science and improving the university’s connection with our society.

During recent years, the impact of Social Determinants of Health (SDH) has been greatly noticed both globally and nationally. Throughout the previous decades, medical interventions were believed to be the only factors capable of influencing one’s health, but during the 21st century, undeniable findings proved that the roots of one’s health are based on factors such as household income, nutrition and diet, childhood and early years development, educational level of the children and their parents, and their socio-economic status which are mostly out of health interventions’ scope and reach but never the less, they play a much more critical part in determining physical and mental health and well-being.

Over the course of this recording session, the titles “Right to access health services, as a human right” by Dr. Hossein Raghfar, economist and member of the academic staff of Al- Zahra University (S), “Regional imbalance and internal migration in Iran” by Dr. Ardeshir Gurvand, sociologist and expert in the field social studies, “Tobacco control strategies” by Dr. Abdolrahman Rostamian, Associate professor of internal medicine department of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, “Traffic, accidents  and health” by Dr. Hamid Soori, professor of epidemiology at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, and “Social factors and disasters” by Dr. Abbas Ostad Taghizadeh, Ph.D. in Health in Disasters and Associate Professor of Health Faculty of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, was presented and recorded.

were presented and recorded.