Shahrzad M. Bazargan, PhD

Shahrzad M. Bazargan, PhD, is an Adjunct Professor at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. Her research focuses on public health, global burden of disease, health disparities, and psychiatric epidemiology. Recent work includes analyzing 30-year trends in substance use disorders and state-level policy impacts, validating psychometric tools for PTSD and disability assessments in Persian cohorts, and examining racial disparities in mortality from hepatic steatosis and NAFLD. She has contributed to systematic reviews on leadership curricula in surgical residency and mentorship of junior surgical faculty, with findings published in JAMA Surgery. Her international collaborations include the PERSIAN traffic cohort and multilingual instrument development.