The scientific groups of the UNESCO Chair in Social Health and Development are specialized sections that are formed for research and study on topics related to the subject of the chair. These groups are formed in order to participate in the country's scientific and executive elites with the UNESCO Chair in Social Health and Development to advance common goals. The scientific groups define, formulate and implement educational, research, extension and international programs in defined specialized areas with the participation of experts and researchers.
 

• Vision

1. Efforts to achieve a scientific authority position at the national and regional levels in the field of social health and development
2. Establish a network of social health activists at the national and regional levels
3. Build capacity to promote participation and utilization of the country's social capital in order to raise awareness in the field of social health and development
4. Sharing knowledge for the development of social infrastructure
5. Promoting social health in order to achieve sustainable development through educational, research, extension and international programs
6. Discourse development of the scientific group's specialized area at the national and regional levels.
7. Explaining the role of promoting the ecological resilience of the land in reducing social vulnerability and increasing national health and vitality.
    

• Missions

1. Creating areas for effective cooperation with educational-research centers and executive agencies.
2. Promoting indicators related to the title of the specialized group at the national and international levels.
3. Attracting national social capital in the group's research area.
4. Determining educational-research priorities related to the specialized group according to the current needs of the academic community and executive agencies, planning for the implementation of the determined priorities with the participation of the chair.
5. Presenting short-term, medium-term and long-term plans of the committee to inform interested groups and organizations.
6. Coordinating the specialized area of ​​the scientific group with other scientific groups of the chair for joint cooperation.
7. Holding regular group meetings with the presence of maximum members and honorary guests and sending minutes to the chair.
8. Orienting towards increasing awareness and improving the quality of research and performance of the target community in scientific and executive centers by regularly holding specialized meetings and scientific conferences.
9. Planning for the implementation of educational-research projects related to the cooperation of scientific centers and executive agencies.
10. Introducing new research areas in the scientific group's field of expertise.
11. Providing moral support for theses and research related to the scientific group's field of expertise by introducing researchers to professors, research institutes, and executive agencies.
12. Identifying capabilities and cooperating with non-governmental organizations in pursuit of the goals of the scientific committee.
13. Creating a basis for attracting student and freelance participation and developing relations with scientific centers and related agencies in the scientific group's field of expertise to expand cooperation between them.
14. Presenting the achievements of the scientific group in the mass media through the production of virtual content, policy monographs, scientific articles and interviews, producing radio and television programs, international communications with global scientific chairs and networks in related fields.
15. Assisting in preparing a zoning map of the country from the perspective of the Happy Land Index - HPI - and determining the priority for implementing projects based on promoting social health affected by vulnerability to processes that reduce land efficiency.
16. Promoting, building capacity, and linking research and policymaking in the field of social health and development

Names of the heads of the scientific groups of the UNESCO Chair in Social Health and Development