Regarding successful cooperation in the past and following recent negotiations, during a meeting on Sunday 1396/3/28 (June 2016), Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences and the Health Faculty of Tehran University of Medical Sciences signed a mutual cooperative agreement. In this meeting, the two parties first explicated the potentials and the facilities of both entities and finally agreed upon cooperation in three areas of holding educational courses, preparing mutual research papers and preparing mutual research proposals.

In this meeting, attended by Dr. Ali Akbari Sari, the dean of the Health Faculty, Dr. Farshad Farzadfar, the chairman of Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Dr. Amir Hossein Tekyan, dean of the sub-faculty of Global Health and Public Policy-Making, Dr. Batool Ahmadi, Dean of the sub-faculty of Management Sciences and Health Economy, Dr. Saharnaz Nejat, dean of the sub-faculty of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dr. Alipouri and Ms. Haghshenas, Manager of the Project Leadership in the research center, the attendees discussed the significance of intersectional cooperation and the need for strengthening the body of research in order to meet the demands of the policy-makers in the health sector, using current potentials available at the Faculty of Health and Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center.

Furthermore, it was decided that meetings should be held to clarify ways of cooperation and formulate an operational plan in each of the above-mentioned areas.