School of Community Health & Policy
Dr. Payam Sheikhattari
Office: Health and Human Services Center (HHSC) Room 327
Phone: 443-885-3639
payam.sheikhattari@morgan.edu
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
MD: Uromia University of Medical Sciences, Uromia, Iran
MPH: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Dr. Payam Sheikhattari is a tenured Professor of Public Health in the School of Community Health and Policy at Morgan State University. With nearly two decades of experience in community-based participatory research, he has led numerous initiatives to address health disparities, particularly in underserved communities. Dr. Sheikhattari is the founder of the Morgan CARES network and former director of the Prevention Sciences Research Center, fostering sustainable collaborations between academia and community organizations. His work focuses on advancing health equity through research, education, and community engagement, with a strong commitment to mentoring the next generation of public health leaders.
Publications
Sheikhattari, P., Wright, M. T., Silver, G., Van der Donk, C., & van Lanen, B. (2022). Practitioner Research for Social Work, Nursing, and the Health Professions. United States: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Sheikhattari, P. Apata, J., Bleich, L., Bezold, L., Wagner, F. (2020) Communities Engaged and Advocating for Smoke-free Environments (CEASE) in Researching Health Together: Engaging Patients and Stakeholders, From Topic Identification to Policy Change (pp. 230 – 241). Sage Publications Inc
Sheikhattari, P., Barsha, R. A. A., & Assari, S. (2025). Lower Successful Quit Rate of Menthol Tobacco Users in a Tobacco Cessation Program: An Explanatory Analysis in Search of Potential Mechanisms. Global journal of cardiovascular diseases, 4(1), 70.
Sheikhattari, P., Barsha, R. A. A., & Assari, S. (2025). Gender Differences in Quit Rates in a Tobacco Cessation Program: In Search of Demographic, Socioeconomic, Health, or Behavioral Explanatory Mechanisms. Journal of biomedical and life sciences, 5(1), 6017.
Sheikhattari, P., Barsha, R. A. A., Egboluche, C., & Assari, S. (2025). Use of Electronic and Conventional Cigarettes and Self-Rated Mental Health in High School Students. Children, 12(7), 902.
Sheikhattari, P., Barsha, R. A. A., Shaffer, E., Bhuyan, I., & Elliott, B. (2023). Lessons learned to improve COVID-19 response in communities with greatest socio-economic vulnerabilities. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 659.
Sheikhattari, P., Mehravaran, S., Apata, J., Silver, G., Murphy, S., Hurtado, S., & Kamangar, F. (2022). An Innovative Biomedical Research Training Model: Rationale, Design, and Evaluation. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 12(12), 1743-1759
Sheikhattari, P., Shaffer, E., Barsha, R. A. A., Silver, G. B., Elliott, B., Delgado, C., ... & Bronner, Y. (2022). Building Capacity for Community-Academia Research Partnerships by Establishing a Physical Infrastructure for Community Engagement: Morgan CARES. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(19), 12467.
Sheikhattari, P., Apata, J., Kamangar, F., Schutzman, C., O’Keefe, A., Buccheri, J., & Wagner, F. A. (2016). Examining Smoking Cessation in a Community-Based Versus Clinic-Based Intervention Using Community-Based Participatory Research. Journal of community health, 41(6), 1146-1152.
Sheikhattari, P., Burke, J. G., O'Keefe, A. M., & Bazargan‐Hejazi, S. (2012). Sustaining relationships between communities and local health systems: two Iranian villages. Journal of International Development, 24(4), 433-447.
Sheikhattari, P., & Kamangar, F. (2010). How can primary health care system and community-based participatory research be complementary? International journal of preventive medicine, 1(1), 1.
Sheikhattari, P., Stephenson, R., Assasi, N., Eftekhar, H., Zamani, Q., Maleki, B., & Kiabayan, H. (2006). Child maltreatment among school children in the Kurdistan Province, Iran. Child abuse & neglect, 30(3), 231-245.
Sheikhattari P, Barsha RAA, Apata J, Assari S. (2023). Race by Education Intersectional Differences in Exposure to Tobacco Advertisement in Baltimore City. J Lung Health Dis. 7(2): 9-17
Assari S, Sheikhattari P. (2023). Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), Marginalized Populations, and Tobacco Regulatory Policies. J Lung Health Dis. 7(2): 1-8
Sheikhattari, P., Apata, J., Silver, G. B., Mehravaran, S., Mitchell, E., & Assari, S. (2023). Small CBPR Grants Program: An Innovative Model to Build Sustainable Academic-Community Partnerships. Metropolitan Universities, 34(5).
Sheikhattari, P., Apata, J., Bleich, L., Kamangar, F., & Assari, S. (2023). Efficacy of a Smoking Cessation Program for Underserved Ethnic Minority Communities: Results of a Smoking Cessation Trial. International Journal of Public Health, 68, 1605739.
Sheikhattari, P., Barsha, R. A. A., Shaffer, E., Bhuyan, I., & Elliott, B. (2023). Lessons learned to improve COVID-19 response in communities with greatest socio-economic vulnerabilities. BMC Public Health, 23(1), 659.
Apata, J., Oladele, A., Fahimi, S., Atanda, F., Barsha, R. A. A., Crowley, M., ... & Sheikhattari, P. (2023). Monday-Enhanced CEASE Program for Underserved Ethnic Minorities: a Mixed-Methods Study. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 1-15.
Jackson, A., Henry, S., Jackman, K.M., Jones, L., Kamangar, F., Koissi, N., Mehravaran, S., Oni, A., Perrino, C., Sheikhattari, P. and Whitney, E. (2023). A Student-Centered, Entrepreneurship Development (ASCEND) Undergraduate Summer Research Program: Foundational Training for Health Research. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 22(1), p.ar13.
Alves, H., Gibbs, L., Marinkovic, K., Brito, I., & Sheikhattari, P. (2022). Children and adolescents’ voices and the implications for ethical research. Childhood, 29(1), 126-143.
Sheikhattari, P., Mehravaran, S., Apata, J., Silver, G., Murphy, S., Hurtado, S., & Kamangar, F. (2022). An Innovative Biomedical Research Training Model: Rationale, Design, and Evaluation. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 12(12), 1743-1759
Sheikhattari, P., Shaffer, E., Barsha, R. A. A., Silver, G. B., Elliott, B., Delgado, C., ... & Bronner, Y. (2022). Building Capacity for Community-Academia Research Partnerships by Establishing a Physical Infrastructure for Community Engagement: Morgan CARES. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(19), 12467.
O'Keefe AM, Bustad K, Apata J, Sheikhattari P, Abrams NR, Mahmud A. What Differentiates Underserved Smokers Who Successfully Quit From Those Who Do Not. J Community Health. 2018 Jul 16. doi: 10.1007/s10900-018-0551-8.
Campollo, O., Sheikhattari, P., Alvarez, C., Toro-Guerrero, J., Avila, H. S., & Wagner, F. A. (2018). Factors associated with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use among youth living in West Central Mexico. World journal of psychiatry, 8(1), 33.
Petteway, R. J., Sheikhattari, P., & Wagner, F. (2018). Toward an Intergenerational Model for Tobacco-Focused CBPR: Integrating Youth Perspectives via Photovoice. Health promotion practice, 1524839918759526.
Campollo, O., Sheikhattari, P., Alvarez, C., Toro, J., Sanchez, H., Wagner, F. (2018). Factors associated with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use among youth living in West central Mexico. World Journal of Psychiatry.
Kamangar, F., Silver, G., Hohmann, C., Hughes-Darden, C., Turner-Musa, J., Haines, R. T., & Sheikhattari, P. (2017, December). An entrepreneurial training model to enhance undergraduate training in biomedical research. In BMC Proceedings (Vol. 11, No. 12, p. 18). BioMed Central.
Estreet, A., Apata, J., Kamangar, F., Schutzman, C., Buccheri, J., O'Keefe, A.M., Wagner, F., Sheikhattari, P. (2017). Improving Participants' Retention in a Smoking Cessation Intervention Using a Community-Based Participatory Research Approach. International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 8(1), 106.
Sheikhattari, P., Apata, J., Kamangar, F., Schutzman, C., O'Keefe, A., Buccheri, J., & Wagner, F. A. (2016). Examining Smoking Cessation in a Community-Based Versus Clinic-Based Intervention Using Community-Based Participatory Research. Journal of community health, 41(6), 1146-1152.
Wagner, F. A., Sheikhattari, P., Buccheri, M. J., Gunning, M. M., Bleich, M. L., & Schutzman, M. C. (2016). A community-based participatory research on smoking cessation intervention for urban communities. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved, 27(1), 35-50.
Johnson, C., Sheikhattari, P., Lao, L., Bronner, Y., & Wagner, F. (2014). Implementation and Feasibility of an Auricular Acupuncture Intervention for Smoking Cessation in a Residential Spiritual Recovery Program: A Pilot Study. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 8(3), 2.
Sheikhattari, P., Stephenson, R., Assasi, N., Eftekhar, H., Zamani, Q., Maleki, B., & Kiabayan, H. (2006). Child maltreatment among school children in the Kurdistan Province, Iran. Child abuse & neglect, 30(3), 231-245.
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