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ABOUT US
CRIMEDIM is a university-wide academic center dedicated to research, education, and training in disaster medicine, humanitarian aid, and global health. It promotes innovative research and educational programmes, using state-of-the-art technologies to strengthen the resilience of systems, organizations, and communities to emergencies, disasters, and humanitarian crises.
Our Vision
Our Vision
CRIMEDIM’s vision is to empower systems, organizations, and communities to effectively protect people’s health from emergencies, disasters, and humanitarian crises, saving lives and minimizing deaths, injuries, disabilities, and human suffering.
Our Mission
Our Mission
CRIMEDIM works to enhance the resilience of health systems in emergencies, disasters and humanitarian crises through increasing knowledge, skills and attitudes of health workers based on scientific evidence and field experience at local, national and international level.
Our Objectives
Our Objectives
Cooperate with different institutions, universities, public and private agencies, governmental and non-governmental organizations to enhance the resilience of health systems. Promote and coordinate research projects in disaster medicine and humanitarian health.
WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE
WHO COLLABORATING CENTRE
CRIMEDIM has been designated World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Training and Research in Emergency and Disaster Medicine in August 2016.
By definition, a WHO Collaborating Centre is an institution designated by the Director-General of WHO to form part of an international collaborative network set up by WHO in support of its program at the country, regional, and global levels.
In line with the WHO policy and strategy of technical cooperation, a WHO Collaborating Centre also participates in the strengthening of country resources, in terms of information, services, research and training, in support of national health development.
In this framework, CRIMEDIM works to provide strategic support to the WHO in what specifically concerns training and research in emergency and disaster.
Collaborations
Collaborations
Worldwide Experience
Worldwide Experience
Urgent call to free an imprisoned expert in disaster medicine, sentenced to death in Iran. We are appealing to the international scientific community on behalf of our colleague Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali who has been detained in Tehran's Evin prison since April 2016 and was recently threatened with death penality by a court in Tehran.
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