Dr. Mehrdad Mohammadi's background is in medicine, public health, law and development economics, having received his credentials from Tehran University and Tufts University. He has been an adjunct professor at the School of Public Health at Tehran University teaching Justice and Public Health Law. Working with the WHO, Mehrdad has advised the Ministry of Health on International Health Regulations and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). This includes projects on tobacco content and emission regulation (FCTC Articles 9 and 10), tobacco products plain packaging (FCTC Articles 11 and 13), NGO advocacy (FCTC Articles 4.7 and 12.e), smoke-free cities and campuses (Article 8), liability of the tobacco industry (FCTC Article 19), and participation in COP9 in 2021. He has founded the NGO titled An Iran Immune to Tobacco (IMAD).

Mehrdad's peer-reviewed publications are focused on justice in healthcare, conflict of interest in health systems, palliative care in the terminally ill, national laws and regulations on cancer control and prevention, ethics/justice in health policy and NGO role in public health.