Department of Public Health

Student scientific club

Scientific Supervisor of the Society: Inessa H. Bibyk, Ph.D., Associate Professor,

inna.bibyk@gmail.com

Head of the Society: Oleksii O. Kuznetsov, Medical Faculty No. 2, Group 13208,

uu920909@gmail.com

The Students’ Scientific Club of the Social Medicine and Public Health Department has many years of history. The main targets of the activity of the club are identification of the talented student youth, stimulation of the young scientists to conduct independent scientific research, development of theoretical knowledge. During the years of the Club existence, approximately 1000 talented students were trained within the Students’ Scientific Club. The Club has played the important role in training of the future qualified personnel of the speciality of social-hygienists. Former participants of the Club are successfully working within many public health institutions of Ukraine and abroad. Many of them have written master’s and doctoral dissertations. During the different periods of existence of the Club, there were studying: Mr. Oleg Voronenko, Advisor on program issues of the representative office of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities in Ukraine; Mr. Yu.P. Reznikov, deputy head of Department of Foreign Students’ Training of the National Medical University, teaching assistant of the Pediatrics Department; Mrs. O.V. Gruzieva, Doctor of Philosophy, Assistant to Professor of Carolina Institute; Mrs. L.O. Lytvynova, associate professor of the Department of social medicine and public health; Mr. Ye.M. Zadorozhnyi, director general of the private enterprise “MEDVIN” and others.

Taking into consideration the traditions of the Students’ Scientific Club and importance of this form of education in the part of preparation of the future scientists and clinicians, a lot of time and work of the heads of the department and of employees responsible for scientific and educational work were traditionally dedicated to the work of the Students’ Scientific Club.

The heads of the Students’ Scientific Club of the department were the associate professor L.O. Lytvynova (2003-2009), professor L.I. Galiyenko (2009-2015), associate professor O.M. Donik (2015-2019). Every head of the Students’ Scientific Club shared his knowledge, considerable doctor’s and pedagogical experience while working with students-members of the club.

As a result of the hard work with the talented youth, there were victories of the members of the Club of the department at the II stage of the All Ukrainian Student Competition on Social Medicine (2015-2019), at the II round of the All Ukrainian Competition of the Students’ Scientific Research Papers (2015-2019) and in foreign scientific competitions, namely, in the Х International Scientific Conference of the young scientists (Lisabon, Portugal, 2015) – І prize,  International Competition of the students’ research papers (Wroclaw, Poland) within the framework of the Х Jubilee Days of Public Health – ІІ prize in 2017 and  І prize in 2018.

Approximately 20 students are annually trained in the Club. The meetings are held at the department every second Tuesday of the month at address: Kyiv, Politechnichna Str., 25/29, Students’ Hospital, 7^th floor. Moreover, the Club members can get consultancy at the department regarding performance of the scientific works on constant basis, including in the on-line mode.

The work of the scientific club is arranged into the following streams: development of the public health system; reforms of the public health service systems; preventive treatment and forming of the healthy lifestyle of the population; grounding of the preventive programs and events; organization and management of public health service; development of the family practice, in-patient care, specialized medical care and medical care substituting in-patient care; use of the modern information technologies; planning and holding of the scientific research.

Members of the club are participants of the international and national scientific forums, take active part in the students’ conferences within department, in informative and educational events, etc.

Work in the scientific club contributes to increase of the level of knowledge of the students in terms of the academic subject “Social medicine, public health”, better understanding of biostatistics, involvement of students into scientific and research work in terms of “Social medicine, public health”.

Calendar Plan of Meetings of the Student Scientific Club in the Discipline “Public Health” for the 2025/2026 Academic Year