Research activity is an integral component of the Department’s work. Over the years of the Department’s existence, its academic and teaching staff have carried out a number of research projects, including “Development of Medical and Social Measures for the Prevention of Occupationally Determined Diseases and Professional Unsuitability among School-Age Youth” (Principal Investigator: DSc (Medicine), Professor H. M. Danylenko); “Hygienic Substantiation of Optimal Models of Adaptation Strategies to Educational Activities in Left-Handed Primary School Students” (Principal Investigator: DSc (Physical and Mathematical Sciences), Professor O. V. Martynenko); “Identification of Somatotype Characteristics in School-Age Children Living in a Large Industrial City” (Principal Investigator: DSc (Medicine), Professor Zh. V. Sotnikova-Meleshkivna); and “Development of a System for Assessing Psychosocial Functioning and Health-Related Quality of Life of School-Age Children in the Context of the Educational Process” (Principal Investigator: DSc (Medicine), Senior Research Fellow N.H.Mikhanovska).Academic and teaching staff of the Department have also participated in an interfaculty research project focused on healthy lifestyle, nutrition, physical activity, and quality of life of higher education students of various specialities and years of study, as well as in an interdisciplinary research project conducted jointly with the State Institution “Institute for Children and Adolescents Health Care of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine,” addressing issues of healthy lifestyle among student youth in Ukraine, relationships with family members, and perspectives for future professional development.
At present, an initiative research project entitled “Identification of Psychosocial Functioning Characteristics of Student Youth in Ukraine” has been launched at the Department (Principal Investigator: DSc (Medicine), Senior Research Fellow N. H. Mikhanovska).
Academic and teaching staff of the Department participate in the implementation of a number of international projects, including “Ensuring Better Care through Trauma-Informed Approaches: Supplementary Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Programme” within the framework of the partnership between UNICEF, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, and Ulm University Hospital (DSc (Medicine), Senior Research Fellow N. H. Mikhanovska), as well as “Climate Change Impacts on Mental Health in Europe (CliMent)” (COST Action CA23113; PhD (Biology), Associate Professor I.V.Redka).
The results of the Department staff’s original research over the period of its existence have been reflected in 17 monographs; 93 articles indexed in the scientometric databases Scopus and Web of Science; 328 articles published in national and international specialized journals; and 393 conference abstracts published in other outlets. Innovative approaches in research are confirmed by 22 patents and certificates of authorship.
The Department has contributed to the organization and conduct of 32 scientific and practical conferences, including 14 international events. Presenting the results of their own research, Department staff have participated in 74 conferences, congresses, symposia, round tables, forums, and similar events, including 33 international meetings.
The Department’s scientific contacts for the exchange of experience, research collaboration, and the implementation of joint research projects have been established by Professor O. V. Martynenko with the University of Barcelona (Spain), the University of Rome (Italy), and the University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom).
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT
2025
International Conference on Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH)
2024
An integral component of the Department’s research activities is the organization of student scientific groups, which function as structural units of the Scientific Society of Students, Postgraduate Students, Doctoral Candidates, and Young Scientists of the Medical Faculty. Members of the Department’s student scientific group, together with academic staff, actively participate in research projects, scientific and practical conferences, congresses, forums, symposia, and other scholarly events. The outcomes of this activity include the publication of 69 conference abstracts and 10 articles in specialized peer-reviewed journals, including one article indexed in the Scopus scientometric database.
On the initiative of student researchers from the Department’s student scientific group, 17 international scientific and practical conferences have been organized and conducted, during which students presented the results of their own research.
Academic and teaching staff of the Department participate in the work of the Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine both as supervisors of students’ research projects and as members of the jury for the first stage of the All-Ukrainian Competition-Defense of Research Projects.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS
Meetings of the Student Scientific Group of the Department of Hygiene and Social Medicine (2022, 2023, 2024)
First Round of the All-Ukrainian Student Research Competition in Fields of Knowledge and Specialties
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