Pouran Faghri, MD, MS, FACSM
Emeritus Professor
Dr. Pouran Faghri served as a Professor in the Departments of Allied Health Sciences from 1995-2019. During her tenure at the University of Connecticut, she held the position of Professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences and served as the Director of the Center for Environmental Health and Health Promotion. Her academic journey includes joint appointments as a professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering and a professor of Public Health in the School of Medicine. She also held leadership positions as director of the graduate program and department head. In 2020, she joined UCLA’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health.
Professor Faghri’s research in occupational health addresses both workplace physical and psychosocial risk factors and their effect of employee’s physical and mental health. She has implemented numerous workplace interventions focused on ergonomics, health promotion, and injury prevention for both private and public organizations. She was the principal investigator for Connecticut’s state employee worksite health program, “ConnectiFIT,” and co-principal investigator at the University of Connecticut for the Center for Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW), a NIOSH Total Worker Health® Center of Excellence. As a leader in behavioral interventions for weight management, Dr. Faghri developed and evaluated innovative, cost-effective lifestyle interventions for obesity management, utilizing approaches like behavioral economics and contingency management. Her biomedical research includes biomechanics and the application of functional electrical stimulation (FES) to enhance function in individuals with disabilities.
Dr. Faghri has received substantial research funding from federal, state and private agencies and serves on editorial boards and as a reviewer for prominent journals and funding agencies. She is a respected mentor to numerous MS and PhD students.
Publication: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-9EhXo8AAAAJ&hl=en
