Head of the Department of Hygiene and Social Medicine

Position: Head of the Department of Hygiene and Social Medicine

Research Interests: Mental health care for children and adolescents; Issues related to autism spectrum disorders; Depressive disorders in childhood and adolescence; Health communication; Public health

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

Email: n.mikhanovska@karazin.ua

Bibliographic Profiles:

Bibliographic Profile Research Gate

Bibliographic Profile Google Scholar

Bibliographic Profile ORCID

Disciplines: Psychology of communication, Conflict in medical settings, Social medicine and public health

Additional Information:

Graduated with honors in 1983 from the Pediatric Faculty of Kharkiv Medical Institute.

In 1996, defended her dissertation titled "Clinical and Psychological Characteristics of Social Maladaptation Formation in Adolescent Boys with Neurotic and Neurotic-like Disorders" and earned the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences. In 2011, defended her doctoral dissertation titled "Psychopathology of Early Childhood with Perinatal Nervous System Damage: Mechanisms of Formation, Clinical Presentation, and Correction" and earned the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences. In 2012, awarded the academic title of Senior Researcher.

A practicing psychiatrist with over 40 years of clinical experience at the State Institution "Institute for Children and Adolescents Health Care of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine" and the Interregional Specialized Medical-Genetic Center for Rare (Orphan) Diseases.

Dr. N. Mikhanovska actively participates as a speaker and member of organizational committees in clinical and scientific-practical conferences, specialized symposia, and congresses. She led an interdepartmental research project titled "Developing a System for Assessing Psychosocial Functioning and Health-Related Quality of Life in School-Age Children within the Educational Process."

She is a member of the specialized academic council D 64.051.08 in Medical Psychology at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and the author of over 190 scientific works, including SCOPUS publications, a monograph, a textbook on psychiatry for doctors, educational manuals, methodological recommendations, patents, innovations, and technologies.

Dr. N. Mikhanovska is an expert in the UNICEF project "Ensuring Better Trauma-Informed Care: A Supplemental Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Program" and participated as an expert in the international Ukrainian-Canadian project "Youth for Health."

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

Dr. N. 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 Health Care Practice" and diplomas from the Kharkiv City Council. She was featured in the reference-biographical publication "Medical Elite of Ukraine: Mental Health Care of the Nation. Best Medical Workers in the Field of Mental Health Care."

Useful links