Head of the Department of Hygiene and Social Medicine

Position: Head of the Department of Hygiene and Social Medicine

Research Interests: Child and adolescent mental health, autism spectrum disorders, depressive disorders in childhood and adolescence, healthcare communication, public health

Postal Address: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Faculty of Medicine, Room 6-43a, Svobody Square 6, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 61022

Email: n.mikhanovska@karazin.ua

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Courses: Communication Psychology, Conflict in Healthcare, Social Medicine and Public Health

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In 1996, she defended her dissertation on “Clinical and psychological features of social maladaptation in adolescent boys with neurotic and neurosis-like disorders” and was awarded the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences. In 2011, she defended her doctoral dissertation on “Psychopathology of early childhood in children with perinatal damage to the nervous system: formation mechanisms, clinical features, and correction” and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences. In 2012, she was conferred the academic title of Senior Research Fellow.

She is a practicing psychiatrist with over forty years of clinical experience at the State Institution “Institute of Child and Adolescent Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine” and at the Interregional Specialized Medical-Genetic Center – a center for rare (orphan) diseases.

N.H. Mikhanovska actively participates as a speaker and member of organizing committees in clinical and scientific-practical conferences, specialized scientific symposia, and congresses. She serves as the scientific supervisor of departmental research projects, including “Development of a system for assessing psychosocial functioning and health-related quality of life in school-age children in the context of the educational process” and “Assessment of psychosocial functioning in Ukrainian university students”.

She is involved in the evaluation of scientific personnel as a member of the Specialized Academic Council D 64.051.08 at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, with the authority to consider and conduct defenses of dissertations for the degrees of Doctor and Candidate of Sciences in the fields of 19.00.01 – General Psychology, History of Psychology; 19.00.04 – Medical Psychology (Psychological Sciences), and also serves as an official reviewer.

N.H. Mikhanovska serves as an expert for the UNICEF project “Ensuring Better Care through Trauma-Informed Approaches: Additional Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Program”. She also participated as an expert in the international Ukrainian-Canadian project “Youth for Health”.

Within the framework of the project “Implementation of a Pilot Trauma-Informed Approach to Mental Health, Psychological Support, and Mediation” conducted by the UNICEF Children’s Fund, N.H. Mikhanovska co-authored the training course “Trauma-Informed Approach in Improving Care”, aimed at professionals providing psychosocial support to children and adolescents at the community level under conditions of armed conflict.

She is a member of the Association of Neurologists, Psychiatrists, and Narcologists of Ukraine, as well as the Ukrainian Public Health Association.

N.H. Mikhanovska has been awarded the Honorary Diploma of the Presidium of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine “For significant contribution to the development of medical science and healthcare practice”, as well as certificates from the Kharkiv City Council. She is featured in the reference-biographical publication “Medical Elite of Ukraine: Mental Health Protection of the Nation. Leading Medical Professionals in the Field of Mental Health in Ukraine”.

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