The Final international conference on the topic of «Doctoral Programs in Public Health and Social Services» (DPPHSS) has launched at the Medical University.
This important event in the field of education united specialists from the Universities of Armenia, Georgia, Romania, Austria, Sweden, Moldova, Slovakia, Kyrgyzstan within the warm walls of YSMU.
The welcoming message of the Rector of YSMU Armen Muradyan to the guests was made by the coordinator of the program and the head of the Chair of Public Health and Healthcare of YSMU Artashes Tadevosyan.
“I am proud to welcome you to our “Alma Mater” – Yerevan State Medical University named after Mkhitar Heratsi, the only state and ancient medical university in Armenia. We have recently celebrated the centennary of our university. For many years, the Medical University has been one of the leading educational institutions in the country, steadily developing, growing, going forward with the time, trying to apply innovations in teaching and clinical practice.
For Armenia, as a partner country of the EU, and for YSMU in particular, this project is of great importance. Internationalization of the University, establishing strong cooperation with leading universities in Europe has always been a priority for us. The Medical University has a long history of productive cooperation with international organizations and universities. I express my gratitude to the European and international partner universities for their willingness to cooperate and share their experience, knowledge and skills. We highly appreciate and support all such international projects, which are aimed at strengthening cooperation among the world’s leading universities.
It is a great honor for YSMU to be the coordinator of the program. Eight other universities- Slovak Medical University, Babes-Bolyai (Romania) University, Gothenburg University (Sweden), University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Yerevan State University, Tbilisi State University after Ivane Javakhashvili (Georgia), as well as the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, Sports of the Republic of Armenia and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Georgia are members of the consortium of the program.
The Erasmus+ “Doctoral Programs in Public Health and Social Services» (DPPHSS) program funded by the European Union is coming to an end, but I am sure that the cooperation will be of a long-term nature,” was stated in the Rector’s speech.
The head of the Erasmus+ National Office in Armenia, Lana Karlova, also welcomed the participants of the event. According to her, it is very important to understand how to attract students to research works, how to organize all these, and the Erasmus+ project answers these questions as well.
“These points are included in the project program. One of our duties is to spread the necessary information. This project should have its impact.
We want each of our projects to be much more influential than the previous one, organizing various meetings, seminars and conferences in the field of healthcare and social sciences,” Lana Karlova noted, expressing hope that effective meetings will be continual.
In his opening speech, the head of the Department of Public Health and Healthcare of YSMU Artashes Tadevosyan stressed the importance of the program not only for the Medical University, but also for our country. “We hope that our cooperation with European partners will continue. This cooperation has at least 10 years of effective work experience,” the specialist added.
Presenting the report on “Development of education in the fields of public health and social sciences in Armenia and Georgia” , Artashes Tadevosyan started from the very beginning of the program, emphasized the important goals and outcomes of the program, documents and publications developed on their basis.
The opportunity to present reports at an international conference was also given to the future doctors.
On the second day of the conference University students Guertsina Petrosyan and Mikael Vardanyan presented a report on “The Impact of Overweight and Obesity on the Female Reproductive System”, Arpine Muradyan made a report on “The Gender Differences in Health-related Life Quality Criteria in adults during COVID-19”, Nane Hayrapetyan presented a report on “The prevalence of allergic diseases, caused by food”, and Alex Israelyan and Madlena Makaryan made a presentation on “The Hygienic Importance of Genetically Modified Food”.