Alireza Marandi
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Alireza Marandi | |
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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | |
Preceded by | Reza Malekzadeh |
Succeeded by | Mohammad Farhadi |
In office 20 August 1984 – 29 August 1989 Acting: 16–20 August 1984 | |
President | Ali Khamenei |
Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
Preceded by | Hadi Manafi |
Succeeded by | Iradj Fazel |
Personal details | |
Born | Imperial State of Iran (present-day Iran) | 3 December 1939
Political party | PFIRF |
Children | Mohammad Marandi Seyyedeh Sousan Marandi Seyyedeh Sepideh Marandi |
Alma mater | University of Tehran University of Virginia |
Alireza Marandi (Persian: علیرضا مرندی; born 1939) is an Iranian politician, physician, and professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology at the Shahid Beheshti University. He was also an associate professor at Wright State University before returning to Iran during the Revolutionary days.
Marandi is a former two-term Minister of Health (and Medical Education) during the premiership of
Marandi is Chairman of the Iranian Society of Neonatologists; the Board of Directors of the
Of his major contributions was a highly successful national vaccination program (which also included a program for terminating polio in Iran), the significant reduction of infant and child mortality rates, as well as organizing one of the most successful national birth control programs in the World.[4]
Marandi was elected as an MP from Tehran in the 2008 Iranian parliamentary elections. Around 1,700 candidates were barred from running by the Guardian Council vetting body, the Supervisory and Executive Election Boards.
The Supreme Leader of Iran is among the patients he has attended in his private medical practice.[5] He is the father of Mohammad Marandi.
References
- ^ Award Laureates
- ^ Recipients of the Dr A.T. Shousha Foundation Prize
- ^ Social determinants of health
- ^ "Role of National Immunization...", Alireza Marandi, April 2010. Retrieved on 05 Jan 2018.
- ^ Aleaziz, Hamed (10 February 2010). "Marandi takes on the Media". Public Broadcasting Service. Tehran Bureau. Retrieved 11 May 2020.