Doctoral Programs in Public Health and Social Sciences  (DPPHSS)

General Information:

Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Faculty of Medicine is participant of the EU Erasmus+ CBHE  597977-EPP-1-2018-1-AM-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP  project ,,Doctoral Programmes in Public Health and Social Science (DPPHSS)’’. The project started on 2018, the duration of the project is 3 years (2018-2021).

The goal of this project is to design and develop a PhD program, aiming at advancing knowledge, research and analytical skills in public health in general, as well as strongly interconnected with social sciences. The project will support modernization of health and social services in Armenia and Georgia through the development of postgraduate program, targeting training of highly specialized professionals in the field, able to assess needs, develop programs and carry out activities in public health and social sciences. Multiple complementary modules will be created which can be combined in different combinations.

There are several components of the project that are new and innovative for higher education in all partner countries:

-The whole idea of creating an interconnected postgraduate research program in Public Health and Social Sciences is itself new for Easter partnership countries. To this date no academic institution has used a method of cross-teaching as a method of training of specialists at the crossroads of multiple disciplines. This approach allows not only provides quality education to future professionals in public health and social sciences, but also establishes a network of professionals that can catalyze development of Public Health and Social Sciences further.

-There are no e-learning components or online resources available for PhD students in partner universities, thus blended learning is not incorporated in postgraduate education. Hence, developing online education resources will be one of the biggest and innovative contributions of this project. Within the framework of this project these important components of education advancement will be developed and implemented.

As a long term impact, project will help to increase competitiveness of involved universities in the global educational arena, will contribute to better health care and social services provision in country, and improve health and social services management and increase career perspectives and job opportunities for prospective graduates.

More information can be found on the official project website: http://dpphss.am/

Partners Institutions

• Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia)
• Yerevan State Medical University after M. Heratsi (Armenia)-project coordinator
• University of Gothenburg, Health Metric Unit, Division of Public Health, Institute of Medicine  (Sweden)
• Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, The Center for Health Policy and Public Health (Romania)
• University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (Austria)
• Slovak Medical University, Faculty of Public Health (Slovakia) 
• L. Sakvarelidze National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (Georgia)
• Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Georgia (Georgia)
• Ministry of Education (Armenia)
• National Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Armenia)
• National Institute of Labour and Social Research (Armenia)
• The University of Georgia (Georgia)
• Yerevan State University, Department of Social Work and Social Technologies (Armenia)

More information can be found on the official project website.

Project Main participants:

• TSU Professor Nino Chikhladze (Coordinator)
• TSU Professor Paata Imnadze
• TSU Professor Dimitri Kordzaia
• TSU Professor Nata Kazhakashvili
• TSU Associate Professor Lasha Loria
• TSU Associate Professor Nato Pitskhelauri
• TSU Associate Professor Maka Jorbenadze

In order to achieve the goals of the project, the following staff have been additionally involved:

• TSU Associate Professor Ketevan Dadiani
• TSU Professor Simon Gelashvili
• TSU Invited professor Maia Kereselidze
• TSU Invited lecturer Ekaterine Ruadze
• TSU Invited lecturer Ketevan Tsomaia

Activities:

• Kick-off Conference in Tbilisi (Georgia)
• Seminar for stakeholders
• Claster Monitoring; Erasmus Projects in Biomedicine
• Visit of Babes-Bolyai University (Romania)
• Monitoring Meeting with representatives of the National Erasmus+ Office (NEO) Georgia
• Visit of University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
• Cluster Monitoring of the National Erasmus+ Office (NEO) Georgia
• Publication of the book ,,Medical Education at the University’’
• Accreditation of the PhD Program “Public Health and Epidemiology”
• Dissemination of information about the project and PhD program
• Info-days for prospective students about accredited PhD Program “Public Health and Epidemiology”
• Admission on the PhD Program “Public Health and Epidemiology”
• Survey of the PhD students (in Georgian) 
• Dissemination activity-Participation in an International Conference
• Dissemination activity-Call for publication 
• Visit of Slovak Medical University (Slovakia)
• Dissemination activities 
• Call for Final Conference and Call for Publication 
• Participation in Public Health Symposium 
• New Publication
• Final Conference
• Dissemination - TSU Newspaper (In Georgian)