Persian Cohort has been set up in 10 identified geographic regions of Iran with the following purposes which will set up in the 7 other centers. These regions have been chosen based on the patterns of local diseases, the possibility of risk factors, population stability, causes of death, interest and local abilities.
1. The focus of physical research on the prevalence and prevention of NCDs which accounts for about 80 percent of causes of disability and mortality in the country.
2. One of the important aims of this project is to prevent from 90000 premature death among Iranians. The implementation of prevention plans can reduce these deaths to 80 percent.
3. Trying to promote health services platform in the country with providing practical suggestion methods in order to prevent from NCDs in the health network system.
4. Providing a platform to train suitable human force and empower health cares in order to promote health services in the country.
5. The creation of a powerful and population-based research infrastructure in medical sciences universities of the country, development of the concept of “health-centered medicine” in medical education and provide a background to train students and also make research for medical experts.
6. The particular focus to promote the quality of health services in more than one hundred new cities of the country which most of them now have rural structure and are in a state of changing epidemiologic conditions.
7. The examination of the most effective methods for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation in cases of chronic non-infection diseases (cardiovascular, cancers, chronic digestive and liver, kidney and nervous diseases) in different Iranian races and nationals through the study of risk factors and doing interventional studies.
8. Providing health care packages in order to increase 5 to 10 years of life expectancy in the Iranian people from the beginning of their life.
9. The establishment of the large country bio bank as a worthy resource to make research on fundamental and cognitive sciences.
10. The contribution of the production and development of knowledge fields through engaging in careful medicine.
11. The establishment of the largest bio bank in Iran as a worthy resource to make research on fundamental sciences, finding different biomarkers of diseases and exploring diagnostic methods and treatment of the common diseases in medical sciences universities in Iran.
12. The establishment of a comprehensive database for two hundred thousand people in the country is an important support for electronic health records.
13. The use of the databases of the country cohort to monitor the status of health and disease levels in different Iranian races.
 
14. The strengthening of the scientific cooperation networks of medical sciences universities in the country.
15. The establishment of scientific cooperation with the most important scientific and research centers in the world as well as exchanging of the researcher and student.
16. The provision of the use field of international research funds for the medical sciences universities and their participation in major international scientific cooperation