Hadis Dastgerdizad earned his doctorate (Ph.D.) in Community Health from the Department of Kinesiology, Health, and Sport Studies at Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit, Michigan, in 2022. He also received his master's and bachelor's in health care administration in 2016 and 2002 from Research and Sciences University in Tehran, Iran, and Medical Sciences University in Esfahan, Iran. He obtained his Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC) in 2021. His research interests are grounded in health promotion, examining behavioral, cultural, and environmental contributors to the onset of obesity, type II diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases among minority populations. Immigrant and refugee health and development of culturally tailored lifestyles and behavioral interventions to influence the mechanisms that underlie motivation and modifying risk factors are other foci of his research. He is a mixed-methods researcher, and the dominant approach for modeling his research is community-based participatory research. The community environment and the social-ecological model are two theoretical frameworks for his research projects.