Helen Jeffreys Bakhtiar

Helen Jeffreys Bakhtiar (née Helen Woodsen Jeffreys; December 24, 1905 – January 30, 1978) was an American nurse and military personnel, who had worked in the 1950s in rural communities in Iran. She has a mountain named after her, Mount Helen, in the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province of Iran. and the first community health nurse in Iran.

Early life, family Helen Woodsen Jeffreys was born on December 24, 1905, in Weiser, Idaho, to parents Nellie (née McRoberts) and James Woodson Jeffreys. She studied nursing at the University of California. but with an accent.

Career In 1931, the Bakhtiar family moved to Iran, and her husband opened a private hospital. She travelled with her husband to rural areas of the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province where they educated and medically treated underprivileged people. She also has a book published about her life, Helen of Tus: Her Odyssey from Idaho to Iran (2002) by Laleh Bakhtiar and Bakhtiari Rose.