Birthdate and birthplace: 09.19.1970, the town Vidin, Bulgaria
Education:
- Nursing School - Pleven (1989 - Nurse, child care)
- Higher Medical Institute - Pleven (1995 - Medicine)
- Specialty: "Social Medicine and Health Management" (2002)
- Higher Medical Institute - Pleven (2003 - Health Management)
- PhD on "Social Medicine and organization of healthcare and pharmacy" (2014)
- Specialty: "Health Economics" (2002)
- DSc on "Social Medicine and organization of healthcare and pharmacy" (2022)
Academic positions:
- Specialization in Department "Pediatrics" (1997 - 1998)
- Assistant professor Department "Social Medicine and Health Management" (1998 - 2003)
- Senior assistant professor Department of "Social and Preventive Medicine, Medical Statistics, Pedagogy and Psychology" (2003 - 2007)
- Chief assistant Professor Department "Public Health" (2007 - 2016)
- Associate professor Department "Public Health" (2016 - 2022) and Department "Social Medicine and Health Management" (2022 to date)
Administrative and expert positions
- Chief Administrative Assistant
- Faculty coordinator of the "Erasmus+" program
- Head of the faculty committee "European integration and international cooperation" to date
- Vice Dean for education and European integration from 2021 to date
- Head of Department from 2022 to date
- Certified expert in migrant health
- Expert at the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency
Courses and specializations – more than 50:
- Public Health Nursing - Belgium, France (February-March 2000)
- Health Policy and Public Communications - Sofia (June 2000)
- Expert evaluation and accreditation for hospital care and diagnostic and consultative centres - Sofia (2002)
- Public Health Nursing - Pleven (June 2004)
- Actual problems of medical education - Pleven (December 2006).
- Methodology of research work. Application of epidemiology and biostatistics in medical research - Pleven (May 2007).
- Family Medicine - Austria (May 2008)
- Funding opportunities and investments in Bulgarian healthcare - Sofia (2014)
- Migrant & Minority Health - Austria (April 2016)
- Train the trainer –Barcelona, Spain (May 2016)
- Changing narrative on Roma in Healthcare settings –Ohrid, North Macedonia (October 2017)
- Understand Yourself, Understand your Learners (Enneagram) –Prague, Czech Republic (May 2018)
- Regional Training of Trainers workshop on migration and health for health professionals, law enforcement officers and social workers –Bucharest, Romania (September 2018)
- Roma health –Salzburg, Austria (March 2019)
- Teaching mobility “Erasmus +” program - Sumy, Ukraine (October 2019)
- Promoting STEAM Education through Teacher Training – Palermo, Italy (June 2022)
Teaching activities:
- Lecture course and Practical classes in Social Medicine
- Lecture course in Social Medicine and Health Promotion
- Lecture course of Epidemiology of health
- Lecture course of Medical Sociology
- Lecture course on Research approaches in medical and social work
- Lecture course on Migrant and Minority Health
- Lecture course on Family Health
Member of the commission for the state exam in the specialty:
• medicine – AEO and BEO
• nurse
• midwife
• health care management
• public health and health management
Member of the state examination committee for the acquisition of a specialty:
• Social Medicine and Health Management (for doctors)
• Public Health (for nurses, midwives, public health inspectors and paramedics)
Research interests:
- Problems of public health - medical and social problems of population groups (children, women, Roma, migrants)
- Research on population health - demographic characteristics and trends in Bulgaria, Pleven region, health status of the population,
- Prevention and Health Promotion
- Management and organization of health care
- Medical education
Membership in scientific organizations:
- European Public Health Association - EUPHA
- Global Society on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health - GSMERH
- Bulgarian Association of Public Health
- Balkan Medical Union
- Union of Scientists in Bulgaria
- Bulgarian Association of Preventive Medicine
- Bulgarian Scientific Society for Public Health - member of the management board - from 2022 to date
- Bulgarian Medical Association
Publications:
- Co-author of a textbook for specialization of nurses in Public Health
- Author of the monography "Prematurity - facts and challenges"
- Author of the monography "Family Health"
- Author of the monography “Health of migrant and Roma population”
- Author of more than 90 articles in Bulgarian and foreign scientific journals
- Participation with reports and posters in over 40 national and international scientific forums
- Abstracts published in indexed journals – over 40
Projects
I. Educational projects
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- EIT Health I-Days Pleven, Pre-accelerator educational program for the creation of Start-up and Spin-off companies at the Medical University - Pleven together with JA Bulgaria
- "Mentoring support for students of Roma origin studying health specialties", within the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area (2014-2021);
- Project BG05M2OP001-2.013-0001 of the Ministry of Education and Culture "Student practices - Phase 2" financed by OP NOIR - academic mentor of 60 students;
- "Student practices" - phase 1, OP "Science and education for smart growth (2014-2020);
- "Erasmus+" - Medical Institute of Sumy State University, Ukraine (2019);
- "TRAIN4M&H", organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and funded by the European Union1 (2018);
- Development of specific training modules for medical personnel, law enforcement authorities and trainers (2018);
- Provision of training for first-line health professionals and law enforcement officers working (2018);
- Project: DCI-NSA ED/2011/239-187 of the EU: ”Equal Opportunities for Health; Action for Development" in collaboration with Medici con I'Africa Cuamm (Italy).
- Project "Equal opportunities for health: action for development" (2011 – 2014) - training and trainer of health professionals from medical institutions in Pleven, Lovech, Vratsa.
- Project: "Scholarship program for medical students and doctors - specialists of Roma origin, "mentoring" component (2011 – 2015) - mentor of 6 students of Roma origin in the specialty "medicine".
- Project BG051PO001 - 3.3.07-0002 "STUDENT INTERNSHIPS" (2013 – 2014) - academic mentor of 54 students.
- Project BG051PO001-4.3.04-0049 "Innovative and modern education in MU-Pleven" under scheme BG051PO001-4.3.04 "Development of electronic forms of distance learning in the system of higher education" (2012 – 2014) - participation in development of materials for the discipline "Epidemiology of Health" for the master's degree "Public Health and Health Management"
- Project "Civil monitoring of health care in the territory of the city of Pleven. Local model for civil participation and support in the implementation of the health reform" (2005) - training and participation in monitoring the health care of the population by doctors in pre-hospital and hospital care in the territory of the city of Pleven.
- Project "TEMPUS-PHARE PEC-AC-JEP-13560-98" - 2000, Belgium and France
II. Scientific projects
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- Impact of COVID-19 on the Roma population in Bulgaria - funded by the Open Society Institute, Sofia (2020)
- Organizational model of obstetric activities in the prevention of HPV-associated diseases - 2020/2022
- Migrants' health - public attitudes and challenges to the country's health system (2017/2019)
- Oxidative stress in colorectal carcinoma (2018/2019)
- Health and demographic characteristics of the working population in Bulgaria (2018/2020)
- Comprehensive medico-social survey of the health status of the Roma population
(2016)
7. Conditions and prerequisites for health promotion at the workplace in Bulgaria (2015)
Prizes awarded
1. Honorary award on the 5th anniversary of the establishment of the Faculty of Public Health for teaching activity and contribution to the development of the Faculty, September 30, 2010, Pleven.
2. Plaque "40 years of Medical University - Pleven" - for the acquisition of the educational and scientific degree "Doctor", December 3, 2014, Pleven.
3. Most outstanding teacher, December 2015, Pleven
4. Plaque for acquiring the academic position "Assoc. professor", October 25, 2016, Pleven.
5. Most outstanding teacher, December 2016, Pleven
6. Certificate for contribution to supporting the development of Roma youth and students in Bulgaria, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health, April 7, 2017, Sofia
7. Certificate for contribution to healthier children and better child health care, President of the Republic of Bulgaria, 2018, Sofia
Language qualification:
- English - written and spoken (C1)
- Russian - written and spoken
- French - spoken