The lectures are given to students in the Department lecture room; practical classes are conducted at specially equipped class rooms for parasitology; natural nidi; disinfection, disinsection and deratization; immunoprophylaxis; military epidemiology and epidemiology in emergencies and disasters. The Department has worked out and introduced into the academic process methodological guidelines for students and interns; these materials are at the methodological room, and students have a free access to them. The Department has a scientific library and a museum of its history; their materials are used for different educational purposes. The Department also has its students’ scientific society.

RESEARCH WORK

AREA OF RESEARCH

In recent years the Department staff has conducted researches on problems of influence of environmental factors and diseases on active immunity against infections, controlled with specific preventive measures; epidemiological diagnosis of infectious diseases; development of epidemiological surveillance methods with use of information technologies; development of methods for mathematical modeling, simulation of epidemic processes and prediction of infectious diseases spreading; development of Ukrainian scientific terminology in epidemiology, creation of an international dictionary of epidemiological terms.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS

During the recent 5 years (2008-2012), the scientists of the Department have published 3 manuals (one of them in English), 65 articles, 114 abstracts, 3 newsletters, 12 methodological guidelines, and received 3 patents and 2 copyright registration certificates (one of them for a computer program).

The results of the Department’s research were recognized both in Ukraine and presented at scientific forums in the FSU (Russia, Belarus), the USA, Austria, Italy, Thailand etc.

SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION

The Department cooperates with other Departments of KhNMU, Mechnikov Institute of Microbiology and Immunology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Bogomolets National Medical University, Zhukovsky National Aerospace University “Kharkiv Aviation Institute”, Sanitary-Epidemiological Establishments of Ukraine and different regions of Ukraine etc. Students actively participate in the research work of the Department. The results are annually reported at meetings of the International Students’ Scientific Society.

CONSULTING WORK

The professor and lecturers of the Department continuously provide workers of state sanitary-epidemiological surveillance establishments in the Kharkiv Regions and other regions of Ukraine with analytical-consultative support in order to reveal ways for optimizing epidemiological surveillance for infectious diseases and development of control measures. The staff of the Epidemiology Department helps sanitary-epidemiological service in working out information technologies and their application to practical work of medical-preventive institutions. Results of this work are described in joint publications in specialized collected scientific articles and journals. The Head of the Department, Doctor of Medical Science Professor Chumachenko T.O. is a national expert in the following aspects: Detection and response to biological threat factors. Statistical methods in epidemiology. Investigation of outbreaks. Analytical epidemiology. Use of information technologies for epidemiological analysis. etc