Mohammad Hassan Emamian has been a professor of Epidemiology at Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, northeast Iran, since 2011 and he is also head of Ophthalmic Epidemiology Research Center at this university. He received his PhD in Epidemiology and MPH degree from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2011 and 1999 respectively. He also graduated as medical doctor from Yazd University of Medical Sciences in 1994. Since 2009, he has been working on cohort studies, ophthalmic epidemiology, NCDs, health Inequality and other important public health topics.