On 21 December 2018 the lecturer of the Department of management Oleksii Demikhov involved the students of the specialty “Public health” in the seminar “The formation of a public health system – a way to the life prolongation and disease prevention”. The meeting was held at the Sumy Regional Clinical Hospital on the initiative of the Sumy Regional Center for Public Health. The experts shared useful information and experience in the development of the public health system in Ukraine. Physicians, pediatricians, general practitioners also joined the meeting.

The students got to know the history of the public health development, its regulatory and legal framework in Ukraine, strategic priorities and the main operative functions, implementation within the field of the Global AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria project, demographic situation and other kinds of information which is important for the effective performance of the professionals in this sphere.