Education

1987 – 1990 Secondary education – SOU “Anastasia Dimitrova”- Pleven

1990 - 1996 Medical doctor  Higher Medical Institute – Pleven, Bulgaria

2000 – 2003 Specialization: Social Medicine and Health Management

2010 - 2013 Specialization: Communal Hygiene

2018 - PhD on "Social Medicine and organization of healthcare and pharmacy"

Work experience:

1998 – 1999 paediatrician at Children ward of the Municipal Hospital Nikopol;

1999 – 2005 Head of department Hygienic-Epidemiological Inspection- Pleven;

2005 – 2011 Head of department Regional Inspection For Protection And Control Of Public Health - Pleven;

2011 – 2015 Head of department Regional Health Inspection -Pleven;

2015 assistant professor Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Public health, Medical University of Pleven

2019 senior assistant professor Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Public health, Medical University of Pleven

Associate professor Department of Social Medicine and health management, Faculty of Public health, Medical University of Pleven

Scientific interests:

Analyses, assessment and prognosis about the health demographic processes at regional level

Protection public health and state health control

Epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases

Monitoring of the factors of the living environment and activities of importance to public health

Membership in professional

Bulgarian Medical Association

European Public Health Association – EUPHA

Bulgarian Association of Scientists

Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region - ASPHER

Forum of Public Health for South Eastern Europe – FPH-SEE

International Hospital Federation

Specializations:

CEFR Level B2 – Upper – Intermediate, MU- Pleven (2020)

Specialized course in English with medical orientation for teaching MU- Pleven (2015)

Specialized English language training for working with the EU institutions - level В1 (2009)

Specialized English language training for working with the EU institutions - level А2 (2008)

Training for the acquisition of linguistic competence in English language - level А1 (2007)

Seminar Migrant and minority health – Open Medical Institute, Salzburg (2016)

Electronic management (Basic Course) - Institute of Public Administration IPA (2014)

Methodology for Estimation of dust exposure - National Center of Public Health and Analyses (NCPHA) (2013)

Statute of government employees in public administration - IPA (2009)

E-management: strategy, policy and financial resources – IPA (2008)

Information security and organizational management systems for information security – IPA (2007)

Documentation - electronic document flow and work with electronically signed documents – IPA (2007)

Third Autumn School on Innovations in Medicine "Personalized Approach in the Treatment of Onc. Dis., 2017

Understand Yourself, Understand Your Learners - DOREA - "ERASMUS+", Prague, 2018

Member of the Organising Committee of Virtual Workshop on Air Pollution and Health in Southeast Europe, organized by Health Effects Institute, 2021

Promoting STEAM Education through Teacher Training- DOREA - "ERASMUS+", Palermo, 2022

Project work:

 Academic mentor under Project BG05M2OP001-2.002-0001 of the Ministry of Education and Culture "Student practices - phase 1" financed by OP NOIR

Researcher in the Project "Health and demographic characteristics of the working population in Bulgaria" for the period 2019 - 2021

Researcher in the "Health of Migrants - Public Attitudes and Challenges to the Country's Health System" Project, for the period 2017 - 2019

Researcher in the project "Conditions and prerequisites for health promotion at the workplace in Bulgaria", for the period 2015 - 2019

Academic mentor under Project BG05M2OP001-2.013-0001 of the Ministry of Education and Culture "Student practices - Phase 2" financed by OP NOIR

Mentor on the project "Mentoring support for students of Roma origin studying health specialties", which complements the component for providing scholarships to young people of Roma origin (Scholarship Program), within the Active Citizens Fund Bulgaria (Active Citizens Fund) under the Financial Mechanism ( FM) of the European Economic Area 2014-2021.

Member of the Working Group in the area of ​​the Cancer mission under the European Union Framework Program for Research and Innovation Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

Personal skills

Mother tongue(s) Bulgarian

Other language(s) understanding speaking writing Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production

English B2

Russian B1

Computer knowledge certificate MS Office State Administration Pack European Software Institute (2007)

Basics of Database - NCPHA (2007)

Computer technologies for collecting and processing information. Practical skills – NCPHA (2000)