International Cooperation and Projects of the Institute

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International Cooperation of the Institute

The State Institution “Marzieiev Institute for Public Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine” cooperates with such organizations under creative cooperation agreements:

  • The WHO Working Group on the Implementation of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution;
  • WHO Working Group on Climate Change and Health;
  • WHO Regional Office for Europe for Environment and Health;
  • The European Task Force on Environment and Health;
  • The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); 
  • Dr. Rath Education Services B.V. (USA);
  • ECOLAB Sp.z.o.o. (Poland) is the regional division of North-Eastern Europe;
  • Europejska Uczelnia Społeczno-Techniczna w Radomiu, Poland;
  • Dokkyo Medical University, Japan;
  • University of Surrey (UK);
  • Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Olsztyn, Poland;
  • University of Salerno, Italy;
  • University of Helsinki, Finland.

In recent years, the Institute’s staff has conducted 23 joint international research projects.

Key areas of scientific and technical cooperation

  • Improving the principles of preventive medicine in promoting health and preventing the development of diseases;
  • Strengthening public health in the face of emergencies and climate change;
  • Identification of environmental hazards (physical, chemical, biological) and health risks from their impact to address ecological quality management issues;
  • Food quality control;
  • Studying the role of lifestyle, educational and upbringing processes, and living conditions in shaping children’s health;
  • Updating the principles of toxic substances regulation in food products and raw materials obtained in the war-affected areas;
  • Scientific substantiation of modern, effective methods and disinfectants for the prevention of infectious diseases;
  • Scientific substantiation of the methodology for determining the danger to public health of socio-economic and ecological changes in society associated with disasters.

Participation of the Institution’s researchers in the work of international organizations, committees, and specialized medical associations

Deputy Director of Scientific Work, Doctor of Medicine, Professor Turos O.I. – Member of the WHO Working Group on the Implementation of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution; Member of the WHO Working Group on Climate Change and Health; Member of the Interagency Working Group on the Implementation of Directive 2008/50/EC on Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe and Directive 2004/107/EC on Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury, Nickel and PAHs in the Air; member of the interagency working group on the implementation of Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions; member of the interagency working group on climate change adaptation under the Interagency Commission on Ensuring the Implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change under the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine; national expert of the WHO working group “Tenth meeting of the working group on health in climate change”; member of the working group on the implementation of the World Laboratory Leadership Program in Ukraine.

Employees of the Laboratory of Air Quality Turos O.I., Petrosian A.A., Mykhina L.I., and Maremukha T.P. are members of the European cooperation organization in science and technology COST TD1105 EuNetAirAction.

The employees of the Laboratory of Air Quality Turos O.I. and Petrosian A.A. are members of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES).

Employees of the Laboratory of Air Quality Turos O.I., Petrosian A.A., and Mykhina L.I. are members of the working group of the European Joint Research Center – Priority Area 6 (JRC-PriorityArea 6) on air quality.

Professor Tetiana Pavlenko, a Doctor of Biology, is the Head of the Laboratory of Radiation Protection and a member of the IAEA International Radiation Safety Standards Committee (RASSC, IAEA).

Surmasheva O.V., the Head of the Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology and Disinfectology, Doctor of Medicine, Professor – mentor from Ukraine in the World Laboratory Leadership Program.

Head of the Department of State Programs Support and International Relations, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Koblianska A.V. – Secretary of the Coordinating Council for the organization of consultations on cooperation with the National Institutes of Health of the United States by the Resolution of the Presidium of the NAMSU of 10.07.18 to organize consultations at the management level on cooperation between the NAMSU and the National Institutes of Health of the United States based on the letter of the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States V.O. Chaly of 10.05.18. N6147/14-690-894; group member to evaluate applications to the Global Laboratory Leadership Program (GLLP). 

Yelizarova O.T., Senior Researcher, Candidate of Medical Sciences, the Laboratory of the Social Determinants of Population Health, member of the International Society for Urban Health (New-York, USA).

During the period of quarantine measures, the laboratories of the Institute (Laboratory of Production Quality and Safety Control, headed by PhD, Candidate of Economic Sciences Ostanina N.V., and Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology and Disinfectology, headed by Doctor of Medicine, Professor Surmasheva O.V.) actively participated in discussions with foreign partners on the quality assessment of disinfectants.

The Laboratory of Production Quality and Safety Control is included in the laboratories recommended by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. It is involved in activities stipulated by the WHO monitoring policy (https://www.theglobalfund.org/media/6630/psm_qclaboratoriesrequirements_listhttps://www.theglobalfund.org/media/6630/psm_qclaboratoriesrequirements_list_ en.pdf?u= 636737337270000000).

The results of scientific research of the Laboratory of the Safety of Children’s Population Vital Functions on the physical development of children and adolescents are highlighted in a world-class journal: Anu Mishra, Bin Zhou, Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez et al. [Alina G. Platonova, Nadija S. Polka] Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development. Nature. 2023. Vol. 615(7954). P. 874-883. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05772-8.

Elsevier recognized the article’s authors for their significant contribution to open science. In 2022, the specialists of the Laboratory of the Social Determinants of Population Health of the State Institution “Marzieiev Institute for Public Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine” published an article in the scientific foreign edition “Sports Medicine and Health Science,” which is indexed by Scopus, and already has seven citations on this platform Yelizarova O., Stankevych T., Parats A., Polka N., Lynchak O., Diuba N., Hozak S. The effect of two COVID-19 lockdowns on physical activity of school-age children. Sports Medicine and Health Science, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 111-126. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smhs.2022.01.002

The International Scientific and Practical Conference “Actual Issues of Public Health and Environmental Safety of Ukraine” (Nineteenth Marzieiev Readings) (October 19, 2023) was held online. More than 460 people took part in total. Four foreign speakers were present. Twelve foreigners attended the conference: three from Germany, two from Japan, and one from Serbia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Sweden, Moldova, and Australia.