Adena Alahverdian, MPH, BS

Research Assistant, Zvart Avedisian Onanian Center for Health Services Research and Development (CHSR), AUA Gerald and Patricia Turpanjian College of Health Sciences (CHS)

AUA Turpanjian College of Health Sciences (CHS), Center for Health Services Research and
Development (CHSR)
MPH (2022), AUA Gerald and Patricia Turpanjian College of Health Sciences (CHS)
BS, Tehran Azad University, Medical Branch

Adena Alahverdian is a research assistant at the Avedisian Onanian Center for Health Services
Research and Development (CHSR), Gerald and Patricia Turpanjian College of Health Sciences
(CHS). She joined the CHSR in 2022 and has been involved in different projects conducted by
CHSR. She has been a Teaching Associate for the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program
courses General Principles of Public Health Problem Solving and Social and Behavioral Sciences
in Public Health and for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program. She received her
Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the American University of Armenia in 2022.
Adena has received the Louise Doumanian Memorial Endowed Scholarship and Ohannes and
Hripsime Doumanian Endowed Scholarship while studying in the MPH program. Her master’s
degree thesis project focused on exploring “Attitudes, Expectations, and Experiences of Smoking
Cessation Quitline Users and/or Smokers About the Quitline Services in Armenia”. Adena
participated in the 9th European Conference on Tobacco or Health in Madrid, Spain, in April
2023 and had a poster presentation of her thesis research, the abstract of the research is published
in the Tobacco Prevention & Cessation Journal. She received the European Network for
Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP) travel grant to support her participation in the
conference.

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Department: Gerald & Patricia Turpanjian College of Health Sciences (CHS)
Address: 40 Baghramyan Avenue, Yerevan 0019, Armenia