Mission Statement

Our mission is to promote the quality and quantity of health research through participation of private sector.

Vision Statement

Health private sector will be the premier in delivering health research services in the countries of Eastern Mediterranean.

Value Statement

Health Researchers R & D Institute is committed to consider these in all its activities: intersectoral and multidisciplinary team work, promoting quality of health research, respect to clients, paying attention to national health priorities, and meeting ethical and moral principles in the research.

Activities

1.      Providing especial services to the managers

Managers, as the upstream decision-makers in organizations, need management science in order to perform the best. But even with all the required skills and knowledge, a manager might not be able to achieve its goals without having the required tools. The two irreplaceable tools needed by the managers to provide high-quality services are information and specialized counseling. Based upon his personnel’s expertise, Health Researchers R & D Institute is able to help managers at all levels to establish an efficient system of information gathering/analysis, and reporting. Moreover, the institute acts as a counseling body for managers. The institute follows the paradigm of subject analysis in other countries, situation analysis in Iran, gathering the required information, and conduction polls among experts in this regard.

    2.      Educating and advocating research culture

Nowadays, quality and quantity of country’s research is considered as one of the major indicators of the country’s development, and having the required knowledge and information is the prerequisite to achieve this goal. This remains a fact, not only in medical and health sciences, but also in other domains of science. Thus, Health Researchers R & D Institute has committed itself to conducting various research workshops in different (medical and non-medical) domains to promote the research knowledge, and advocate the research culture in Iran.

Special areas

1.      Human resource planning in medical sciences

The founders of the institute began their activities as a team dedicated to carry out research in manpower planning in Iranian Council for Graduate Medical Education, with support of Dr. H Hashemi (former secretary of the council). Ever since, some research plans and books have been published in this regard. In the process of planning the manpower in medical sciences, numerous issues such as the number of required staff, distribution pattern, and the ways of gathering information are considered.

    2. IranMedex

IranMedex is a database covering all biomedical journals published in Iran. It is developed by Iranian Researchers R & D Institute and provides access to all medical and health related articles published since 1982. This database is available at www.iranmedex.com and contains a system of search and retrieval. In fact it is an Iranian Medline and similar to PubMed which is an online copy of Medline. Initial search in this database is free but for more detailed information subscription is necessary.

   3. Performance Based Management

Performance-based mangement is a systematic approach which leads to the improvement of performance through processes including determination of strategic goals of performance, performance measurement, collection and analysis of data related to performance, reporting of the results and applying them. In other words, when performance is in mind, results of activities are more important than activity itself. Thus performance-based management is management of results and not strict supervision on the procedure.

Recently Health Researchers R&D Institute has established a program of performance-based management at Zia'ian Hospital, emergency ward. Also books have been published on this category.

   4. Marketing Research

Scientific evaluation of business is an essential for successful companies. Studies of Business media, consumer, competitors, goods, services, distribution and commercial advertisings are all parts of this scientific evaluation. Besides of these activities our institute helps the other companies for marketing of health and medical products in IRAN.

   5. Web Design and Development

Considering the importance of effective dissemination of information, another activity of the Institute is designing and development of web sites related to health and medical issues. Examples include International Diploma Course on Malaria and the web site of Deputy of Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences.