Reza Rahmanian

Biography

Reza Rahmanian is a PhD candidate in health economics at the University of Antwerp. His research covers mortality, epidemiology and health policy, drawing on public health, the social sciences and quantitative methods. He holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Shiraz University, a master’s in social science research from Shahid Beheshti University, an Erasmus Mundus joint master’s in public health in disasters and a master’s in public health. He spent nearly five years as a researcher at the Health Policy Research Center of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and served as a social adviser to Shiraz City Council. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, including several ecological studies in 2024 on excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of the C-MOR project, and a 2025 article on persistent all-cause excess mortality after the pandemic.