1. Life and Education

2. Significant Achivments

3. Publications

4. Web Links

5. References

.

Hamidreza Khankeh (born December 22, 1967, in Arak Iran ) is an Iranian scientist in field of Emergency & Disaster Health and he become known for his development of national guideline to prepare hospitals against disasters, national respond framework in disasters and integrating emergencies numbers in Iran. He has been member Academy Of Medical Science Iran since 2016 ^[1]. Khankeh has been head of department and research centre of Health in Emergency and Disaster ^[2] in University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Science^[3] Tehran since 2012. From 2017 he has held vice chancellor for National Emergency Medical Organization ^[4] of Iran, national advisor for deputy of nursing in Ministry of Health in emergency and disaster and also advisor of National Disaster Management Organization ^[5] and Tehran Disaster Mitigation and Management Organization ^[6].

Life and Education

Hamidreza Khankeh was born in 1967 in Arak Iran which is located 260 km from the city of Tehran. His father Morteza is Blacksmith. When he was 18 years old he left the college for attending Iran-Iraq War as a young volunteer health care provider and as paramad. After a few months, he got responsibilities as a clinical nurse in the emergency clinics in the front line of the war. In his years at war, khankeh came into contact with people who were from less privileged economic classes of society and he felt the difficulties and hardship that existed in Iran during war period. At the same time, he also suffered from Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) of the war and depression.

He was always curious to ho help the people in catastrophic situations, therefore, he attempted to improve his knowledge in nursing and emergency and offer solutions for the problems faced by disaster societies. He finished his bachelor's degree in Iran University of Medical Sciences at 1991 and at the same year he started his master's degree in Nursing Science at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science and Medical Education. He becomes a faculty member in University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Science Tehran from 1995. He got his Ph.D. in field of emergencies and disasters health from Iran University of Medical Science(IUMS) 2007. His thesis was about designing a model for health care services at the time of disaster: A Grounded Theory Study ^{[7] [8] [9]}. Khankeh decided to improve his knowledge where he continued his Post-Doctora under supervision of Prof. Maaret Castren ^[10] at Department of Clinical Science and Education^{[11] [12]} Sweden in field of emergencies and disasters health focusing on qualitative paradigm special using grounded theory methodology. After expanding his knowledge, he initiated, designed and developed some important national research projects ^{[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]}. His special focuses are on theoretical and applied disaster research in the field of emergencies and disasters health, on qualitative designing in field of emergency and disaster and also hospital emergency risk management programming. He has been as a deputy of research and technology in University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Science between 2014 and 2017. Khankeh is visiting professor in departments of clinical science and education at Karolinska Institute in Sweden, Leipzig University in Germany and University of Gdansk in Poland, he gives internatonal and national lectures at congresses and gives courses on topics related to disaster and emergencies and qualitative methodology. Khankeh lives in Tehran, is married and has one daughter.

Significant Achivments

When khankeh was as deputy of research and technology in 2014-2017 at University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Science he improved the rank of this university in field of research and technology to 7 between 42 medical education universities in Iran ^[20]

Khankeh when he expend some months for research in field of emergencies and disasters coordination at University of Hyogo in Research Institute of Nursing Care for People and Community^[21] he realised that his country needs to focus on coordination in disaster situation. When he backed form Japan he strarted to develop disaster risk reduction in Iran in field of health and he has done some interventions base on an international recommendation like Hyogo framework for action 2005 and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction for action 2015 to reduce the amount of disaster risk in the country. Therefore, Khankeh from 2011 tried to developed a national guideline to prepare hospitals against disasters and this guideline is known as a national guideline in every part of Iran ^{[22] [23]}. Nowadays this guideline has been included in hospitals accreditation system and all hospitals including governmental and private hospitals, even militaries hospitals have to follow criteria. This national guideline has been approved by the World Health Organisation(WHO).

Khankeh and his team in 2015 base on order of head of National Disaster Management Organization initiated National Respond Framework (NRF) in disasters and emergencies situations and distributed in different parts of Iran. This national response framework has been developed base on two level of the disaster which categorized disaster in Iran from E0 which means emergency zero until E-four it means emergency four( E0,E1,E2,E3,until E4) ^{[24] [24]}.

Khankeh tried to developed national single emergency number to integrate all emergency number(SOS) in Iran ^{[25] [26]}. In Iran there are several organizations which are involved in the field of emergency and disaster such as Iranian medical Emergency medical services(EMS), Iranian Red Crescent Society, Iranian fire department, municipalities, police department, and social welfares and the other involved organisations they all have their own emergency numbers. Nowadays this national project has been piloted under supervision of him in one of the cities of Iran Qom which have the most important high way in the country with the highest rate of accident. The dispatch system of Iran will be integrated with the help and support of [https://www.steiger-stiftung.de/ Steiger Stiftung], Emergency organization of Iran and khankeh research team from December 2018 ^[27].

Publications

His publications include Frasi and English language books as publisher and author on the emergency and disaster health and more than 150 peer-reviewed articles. Khankeh and his research team published the first National Tool for Hospital Preparedness Against Disasters ^[23] and Hazard and Hazard Assessment Toolkit for Disaster & Health ^[28] which they are one of the main references book in this area. He is editor in chief of Health in Emergencies & Disasters Quarterly(HDQ)^[29]

Web Links

• [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hamid_Reza_Khankeh Researchgate]
• University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
• Academy of Medical Science of Iran
• [https://ki.se/en/people/hamkha Karolinska Institute Profile]

References

• Zofria Indoor Hall
• Zogabong
• Zogaj
• Zogaj (disambiguation)
• Zogaj, Kukës
• Zogaj, Shkodër
• Zo Gam
• Zogam language
• Zogas
• Zogba
• Zogbaum
• Zogbo
• Zogby International
• Zogg
• Zoghal Chal
• Zoghal Chal, Babol
• Zoghal Chal, Sari
• Zoghal Manzel
• Zoghalsang Kerman FSC
• Zoghman Mebkhout
• Zog I, King of Albania
• Zog, King of Albania
• Zogling
• Zog lover
• Zog of Albania