Chairman of Health Policy Research Center, professor Kamran Bagheri Lankarani announced that the 10th International Conference on Women’s Health is slated to be held on Dec 1-2, 2021 hosted by Iran’s Shiraz.

Kamran Bagheri Lankarani said on Saturday that the 10th International Conference on Women’s Health will be held in Shiraz on Dec 1-2, 2021. He added that, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this conference will be held virtually for the second consecutive year.

Lankarani, the former Minister of Health and Medical Education added that women’s mental and physical health has been the main focus of the past 9 conferences.

He added that the 10th edition will focus on women’s health under pandemics particularly the Covid-19 pandemic.

He also pointed to the other subjects of the conference as healthy pregnancy, Covid-19 pandemic, job fatigue and social damages.

Lankarani also noted that during the 2-day conference, 20 speeches will be delivered and 185 articles will be presented. /MNA/

 

The 2nd edition of the International Children’s Film Festival, KidzCINEMA, picked Mohammad Hassan Shahmohammadi and Azadeh Shakouri-Rad as jury members.

Iranian filmmakers Mohammad Hasan Shahmohammadi and Shakouri-Rad have been selected as jury members in the 2nd edition of Kidz CINEMA 2021 in Animation – SHORT part of this festival.

Kidz Cinema 2021 is the second edition of this International Children’s Film Festival, KidzCINEMA, which will be attempted to be delivered in a hybrid format including on-ground and online environment to the global audience.

KidzCINEMA 2021 film Festival will open on 20th November 2021 with main activities running for 5-days. Awards will be announced on 24th November 2021 and the online screening of the selected films will be available for a period of one-month starting from the festival opening date. /MNA/

Iran and Vietnam will enhance scientific and technological cooperation, IRNA reported on Tuesday. Hossein Salar-Amoli, head of the international scientific cooperation center of the Ministry of Science in a meeting with Nguyen Manh Hien, Ambassador of Vietnam to Iran, discussed expanded cooperation in academic and scientific fields.

The Iranian official stated that a number of Vietnamese universities, including the National University of Hanoi, Ton Duc Thang University, and several others, ranked in the world scientific rankings. While 40 Iranian universities have also been included. Therefore, the chancellors of the top universities are invited to attend a meeting to develop academic cooperation.

Hong Thach also for his part expressed readiness for enhanced cooperation and emphasized that we will convey and support all the issues raised in this meeting to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Education, Science, and Technology.

Iranian universities making progress

Most recently, fifteen universities from Iran have been listed among the best institutions worldwide, by the U.S. News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings 2022.

The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Graduate Employability Rankings 2022 list has been released, which included three Iranian universities out of a total of 550 institutes worldwide that highlighted graduate employment processes.

Some 41 Iranian universities in engineering sciences and 12 universities in computer sciences have made a place among the top 1,188 universities in the world with the announcement of Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 by subject.

It also has introduced 59 Iranian universities among the top institutions in World University Rankings 2022.

The THE Education Young University Rankings 2021 listed 26 Iranian institutions among the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger.

Moreover, some 34 Iranian universities and institutions were listed among the top 1,000 in the world, according to Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2021. /T.T/

COVIRAN Barekat vaccine started phase one and two of the clinical trial on children aged 12-18, IRIB reported on Tuesday.

Made by researchers at the Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam, COVIRAN Barekat was unveiled on December 29, 2020, and received the license for public use on June 14.

On November 11, a license has been issued for the vaccine to conduct clinical studies on children.

For the age group of 12 to 18 years, two stages of studies are considered, Hamed Hosseini, supervisor of COVIRAN vaccine trial said.

Referring to 60 volunteers in the first phase of the clinical trial, he noted that children between the ages of 12 and 18 will enter the study, and if the result is successful, children between the ages of 6 and 12 will also attend the study.

Fortunately, all the people who have participated in the vaccine trial so far did not have any special or dangerous side effects, so we decided to start the study for the age group of 12 to 18 years, he further added.

Currently, COVIRAN has produced over 10 million doses of vaccine.

An article on clinical and technical knowledge was published in the Journal of Medical Virology with an impact factor of 98.6 and in the Q1 category.

The vaccine proved effective against Indian strain, according to Hojjat Niki-Maleki, head of the information center of Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam.

Eleven countries from Asia and South America, and a European country have asked for importing COVIRAN vaccine, Hassan Jalili, the vaccine’s production manager, said in June.

Homegrown vaccines

According to the Food and Drug Administration, 14 vaccines are being domestically developed in the country which are in different study phases.

The second Iranian-made vaccine developed by the Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute (Razi Cov Pars) started the clinical trial on February 27.

Fakhra vaccine, the third domestically-developed COVID-19 vaccine, was unveiled and started the clinical trial on March 16.

Lately, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use license for two other domestic vaccines of Razi Cov Pars and Fakhra.

Iran is one of the few countries that has all vaccine production platforms, Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz, former head of the Iranian Food and Drug Administration, said in June.

Meanwhile, World Health Organization (WHO) representative to Iran Jaffar Hussain said in September that the Organization was collecting the necessary information for the registration and certification of Iranian-made coronavirus vaccines. /T.T/

Iranian short film ‘Mostafa’ has been selected to participate in the competition section of the 18th accordi @ DISACCORDI – International Short Film Festival.

Directed by Alireza Teymouri and produced by Peyman Shahmohammadi, ‘Mostafa’ will take part in the competition section of the accordi @ DISACCORDI – International Short Film Festival.

‘Mostafa’ is the story of an Afghan man who lives with his family in Iran. This family does not have any identity cards and this creates a problem for them.

The short film has been produced with the support of the South Regional Film Organization and the Swedish Institute Film.

‘Mostafa’ has won the Best Director Award at the International Kolkata Short Film Festival in India.

Accordi @ DISACCORDI – International Short Film Festival celebrates its 18th anniversary from November 16 to December 5, 2021, in Naples, Italy. It is an audience-friendly festival that focuses on quality programming of all genres. /MNA/

 

Iran won the title of the 2021 CAFA U15 Championship in Dushanbe, Tajikistan on Tuesday. The Persians defeated Kyrgyzstan 8-0 in their third match.Esmaeil Gholizadeh (two goals), Kasra Taheri (two goals), Samir Hobobati, Erfan Darvish, Reza Ghandipour and Ali Rahmannejhad were on target for Iran.

Iran had defeated Uzbekistan 3-2 and were held to a 1-1 draw by Tajikistan in their previous two matches.

Iran won the title with seven points thanks to a better goal difference than Tajikistan.

The tournament was held from Nov. 19 to 23 in a round-robin format.

Iran had also won the 2nd edition in 2018 which was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The CAFA Championship is an international football competition in Central Asia for the member nations of the Central Asian Football Association (CAFA). /T.T/

 

Four Iranian wrestlers have advanced to the final matches of the Free-Style contests at the 5th CISM World Military Wrestling Championship in Tehran on Monday.

Iranian freestyle wrestler Mohammad Bagher Yakkeshi at -61 kg defeated an Armenian opponent to advance to the final. But in the 70kg category, Mohammad Mahdi Yeganeh Jafari was beaten by another Armenian rival and failed to reach the final.

Also, at 79, 92, and 125 kg divisions, Bahman Teymouri, Mohammad Hossein Mir Baghban, and Yadollah Mohebi, respectively beat their rivals and advanced to the final matches later today.

Moreover, on the first day of the competitions on Sunday, two Iranian wrestlers Morteza Ghiasi at 65 kg and Mohammad Hossein Mohammadian at 97kg gained gold medals.

Ahmad Mohammadnejad at 57 kg and Fariborz Babaei at 74 kg won a silver medal each while Hadi Wafaeipour at 86 kg received a bronze medal.

The 5th CISM World Military Wrestling Championship is being held as an important event in Tehran on November 21 – 24, 2021.

 

Iranian Pavilion consisting of 13 knowledge-based companies will be held in the 30th International Istanbul Plastics Industry Fair (Plast Eurasia Istanbul 2021).

Chief Development Officer at Iran National Innovation Fund (INIF) Siavash Malekifar said that the 13 knowledge-based companies will attend Plast Eurasia Istanbul 2021 which is slated to be held on 1-4 Dec. 2021 in Turkey.

According to Malekifar, these knowledge-based companies will present their latest achievements in the field of plastic, polymer and relate industries.

International Istanbul Plastics Industry Fair (Plast Eurasia Istanbul), the largest plastics industry fair held every year in Europe, is organized by TUYAP in cooperation with PAGEV (Turkish Plastics Industry Foundation) in Tüyap Fair Convention and Congress Center, Istanbul.

Plast Eurasia Istanbul 2019; 29th International Istanbul Plastics Industry Fair brought together 1,085 companies and company representatives from 40 countries and 52.361 professional visitors from 106 countries on the 4th-7th of December in Tüyap Fair Convention and Congress Center, Istanbul. /MNA/

 

Iranian short film ‘White Clad’ directed by Reza Fahimi will be screened at four international film festivals in Turkey, Sweden, Iraq and Australia.

‘White Clad’, a production of the Iranian Youth Cinema Society by Reza Fahimi, is scheduled to be screened at the 4th edition of the Turkish Red Crescent International Amity Short Film Festival, the 26th edition of the Canberra Short Film Festival in Australia, the 12th edition of the SAMA International Film Festival in Sweden and the 5th Slemani International Film Festival in Kurdistan region of Iraq.

The short film shows an old woman bringing some sheep cheese to Ahmad, a ten-year-old boy so that he can give it to his father, who is a teacher. His father should intervene and stop them from hanging the woman’s son.

‘White Clad’ has received the grand prize in the international competition of the 37th Tehran International Short Film Festival (TISFF). /MNA/