Main field of research of Dr Ehsan Mostafavi is the study of tropical and neglected infectious disease such as CCHF, Brucellosis, Borreliosis, Dengue fever, West Nile fever, Rickettsial infections, and Leptospirosis. He has established the national reference laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q fever in the research centre for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases (RCERID) in Institut Pasteur of Iran (IPI), which he is now the director. He is also the director of Department of Epidemiology in IPI.
Since 2015, he became the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Office (EMRO) temporary advisor on zoonotic infections, and in 2018, he was selected as the IHR roster of experts of WHO HQ in human-animal interface and Roster of Experts of WHO EMRO for the Infectious Hazard Management. Dr Mostafavi is the focal point of IPI in WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network.
Dr Mostafavi is also the leader of the outbreak investigation team of IPI to investigate and control infectious diseases.
During the last five years, Dr Mostafavi has published more than 210 scientific papers, and has organized more than 30 courses that more than 700 participants from 40 countries has attended.

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