Payam Sheikhattari

Payam Sheikhattari is a Professor of Public Health at Morgan State University's School of Community Health and Policy and former Director of the Prevention Sciences Research Center. He received his MD from Urmia Medical University and his MPH from Tehran Medical University, and completed postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University. For over two decades, he has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on NIH-funded research, with expertise in community-based participatory research, tobacco prevention and cessation, and biomedical research. He co-led Morgan State's ASCEND/NIH BUILD program and has contributed to the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR).