Nino Chikhladze

Full Professor

Department of Public Health 

Director of English Master of Public Health Program

Head of Medical Ethics Unit

Head of Quality Assurance Service

Email: nino.chikhladze@tsu.ge

Education: 

1982-1988 TSMU - Medical Doctor

1984-1988 TSU - International Relations and French Language

1997 TSU - PhD in Medical Statistics/Economics

2013 TSU - PhD in Public Health 

2001-State Certificate  ,,Public Health and Health Management''

Professional Activities:

2018-present TSU Full Professor

2006-2018 TSU Associate Professor

1995-2005 TSU Invited Lecturer

1992-1995 Tbilisi University, Invited Lecturer

2010-present  National Center of Education Quality Enhancement, Expert

1998-2008 Medico-Diagnostic Center, Physician

1988-1998 Central Primary Care Ambulance, Physician

1888-1989 Aladashvili Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Physician

Project Leadership:

Research Projects

2017-present — NIH Fogarty International Center (USA), ICREATE: Injury Capacity in Research in Eastern Europe — Country Coordinator and Principal Investigator

2017-2022 — NIH Fogarty International Center (USA), INITIatE: International Collaboration to Increase Traumatic Brain Injury Surveillance in Europe — Country Coordinator and Principal Investigator

2020-2023 — C-MOR Consortium: COVID-19 Mortality — Institutional coordinator

2025-present — COST Action EDEM, Ethics in Dementia (CA21137) — WG4 Subgroup Leader

2026-2027 — Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia — Assessing Alcohol Expectations and Beliefs in Georgian Students — Scientific Supervisor

2016-2022 — SIU/DIKU (Norway), Georgian–Norwegian Collaboration in Public Health — Country Coordinator

2012-2015 — SIU (Norway), CPEA -2012/10040, Doctoral Programme in Public Health: Norwegian Experience of Third-Cycle Studies for Georgia — Institutional coordinator

Educational Projects: 

2021-2022 — Erasmus+/EUA, Leadership and Organisation for Teaching and Learning at European Universities — Member, Leadership Working Group, Cohort 2

2018-2022 — Erasmus+, Doctoral Programmes in Public Health and Social Services — Manager

2011-2014 — Tempus, Modernizing Undergraduate Medical Education in EU Eastern Neighboring Area — PCIT Group Member and Manager

2023-2024 —AUF, Reseau de recherche international sur les determinants de lа sante dans lе contexte du changement climatique (ReSanCli) — Country Coordinator

2009-2013 — Tempus, Master’s Programmes in Public Health and Social Services — Manager

2008-2010 — Tempus, Tuning Approach for the Georgian Higher Education System — Nursing Direction Coordinator

2007 — Tempus, Development of Occupational Therapy in Georgia and Armenia — Institutional coordinator

2020-2023 — Erasmus+, Building Academic Capacity in Global Health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (BACE) — Teacher/Researcher

2025 — UNICEF, Introduction to Children’s Environmental Health and its Integration into the Medical Education System in Georgia — Participant

2023-2024 — Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Development of the Medical Educational Process and Capacity Building — Participant

Important publications:

Pitskhelauri N, Kareli M, Dochviri T, Chikhladze N, Hamann C, Dulf D. Prevalence of falls and associated risk-factors among Georgian older adults. BMC Geriatr. 2026 Mar 7;26(1):527. doi: 10.1186/s12877-026-07310-3. PMID: 41794680; PMCID: PMC13081633.

Coman MA, Dulf D, Marga PM, Tadevosyan A, Chikhladze N, Cazacu-Stratu A, Peek-Asa C. Assessing pediatric traumatic brain injury and health-related quality of life in three eastern European countries. Journal of Pediatric Health Care. 2026 May-Jun. 40(3) 376-384.

Chryso Th Pallari, Souzana Achilleos, Annalisa Quattrocchi, Mohammad R Rahmanian Haghighi, Minh Tam Phan, Andreas Artemiou, Catherine M Bennett, Joseph Cuthbertson, Claudia Zimmermann, Eva Schernhammer, Catharina Vernemmen, Serge Nganda Mekogo, Jackeline C P Lobato, Laylla Macedo, Maria Athanasiadou, Laust H Mortensen, Julia A Critchley, Lucy P Goldsmith, Gleb Denissov, Nolwenn Le Meur, Levan Kandelaki, Nino Chikhladze, Kostas Athanasakis, Binyamin Binyaminy, Tamar Maor, Enza Caruso, Giuseppe Ambrosio, Cyndy Martial, Marie Chan Sun, Terje P Hagen, Manuel Barron, Mario Chong, Błażej Łyszczarz, Ivan Erzen, José Antonio Cernuda Martínez, Pedro Arcos González, Bo Burstrom, Wenjing Tao, Qian Huang, Antonis Polemitis, Andreas Charalambous, Christiana A Demetriou, Sustained excess all-cause mortality post COVID-19 in 21 countries: an ecological investigation, International Journal of Epidemiology, 2025, Volume 54, Issue 3, dyaf075, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf075

Christiana A Demetriou, Souzana Achilleos,  Maia Kereselidze, Nino Chikhladze, Claudia Zimmermann, Eva Schernhammer, Antonis Polemitis, Andreas Charalambous, on behalf of the C-MOR Consortium, Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on total, sex- and age-specific all-cause mortality in 20 countries worldwide during 2020: results from the C-MOR project, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 52, Issue 3, June 2023, Pages 664–676, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyac170

C.Peek-Asa, M.A.Coman, A.Zorn, N.Chikhladze, S.Cebanu, A.Tadevosyan, C.J.Hamann. Association of traumatic brain injury severity and time to definitive care in three low-middle-income European countries. Injury Prevention 2022;28:54-60.

M. Coman, D. Dulf, A. Tadevosyan, N. Chikhladze, S. Cebanu, C. Peek-Asa. 202 A four-country survey of violence to healthcare providers. Injury Prevention 2022;28:A31.

Irzan H, Pozzi M, Chikhladze N, Cebanu S, Tadevosyan A, Calcii C, Tsiskaridze A, Melbourne A, Strazzer S, Modat M, Molteni E. Emerging Treatments for Disorders of Consciousness in Paediatric Age. Brain Sci. 2022 Jan 31;12(2):198. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12020198. PMID: 35203961; PMCID: PMC8870410.

Dulf D, Coman MA, Tadevosyan A, Chikhladze N, Cebanu S, Peek-Asa C. A 3-Country assessment of traumatic brain injury practices and capacity. Elsevier-World Neurosurgery. 2021 Feb 1;146:e517-26. (IF 2,104)

Teaching and coordinating the following subjects:

Health Promotion; Injury Prevention; Research Methods and Scientific Writing;  Global Health; Medical Ethics; Bioethics and Medical Law;

Health, Social Care and Legislation; IPR, Legislative, Commercial and Ethical Principles of Biosciences; University Curriculum Development Principles