Behrooz Astaneh


Behrooz Astaneh is the founder of an academic Master of Science course of medical journalism in the Middle East and has presented more than 750 workshops.

Early life and career

Behrooz Astaneh was born on 1964 in Shiraz, Iran. He graduated in medicine from . He then continued his studies on medical journalism at the University of Westminster in London, UK. He designed specific academic training courses for medical editors. He has also focused on disseminating the essentials of publication ethics among regional editors by presenting various workshops in this field and also performing two international congresses on publication ethics in Shiraz, Iran in 2011 and 2014.
He is the only Iranian Council member of the . He is the vice president of , and the vice president of the Iranian Society of Medical Editors.
His distinguishing feature is presenting more than 750 at national and on various aspects of medical editing, publishing and publication ethics. He is the only Iranian editor who served among the few editors of the , and has been selected as one of the directors of since July 2020.