Three days full of presentations and discussion. Our team at the Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, PJ Šafárik university hosted assoc. prof. Gabriel Gulis from University of Southern Denmark in Kosice.

We started 4th of March with invited lectures by assoc. prof. Gabriel Gulis on the topic “Preparation, evaluation and management of research projects“ for PhD students and continued with “Global burden of disease” for medical students.

On 5th of March whole day was spent on strategic planning and discussion about possibilities in future with our School-aged children, Vulnerable children, Specific patients groups and Marginalised Roma research groups.

Fully packed three-day program finished on 6th of March with presentation on possibilities of Erasmus study stays at the University of Southern Denmark.

An amazing day in the company of amazing people. Thank you for being part of it!

Zuzana Dankulincová and Daniela Fiľakovská participated as part of the program on February 28 at the III. special-pedagogical conference in Partizanske and talked about the Care4Youth study. The preliminary results of the project were presented with the contribution “Child Care System with emotional and behavioral problems: Suggestions for consensual improvements from the viewpoint of care providers” and they also participated in the “Moderated Discussion on Inclusion in Slovak Education”.

More information here and here.

Dr. Jaroslava Kopcakova attended meeting of Children organisation Fénix (working under Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and IUVENTA-Slovak Institue of Youth) within implementation of Health Behaviour of School-aged Children study. This activity is part of project “Health is not cliche”, particularly implemenatation of Voice of children into National report of last Health Behaviour of School-aged Children study data collection.

Dr. Peter Kolarcik was invited to official announcement of WHO Collaborating Centre Working with Vulnerable Population Groups in Central Europe in National Institute for TB, Lung Diseases and Thoracic Surgery in Vyšné Hágy on 21st of February 2019.

Second purpose of the meeting was to meet with Dr. Tatul Hakobian, the head of Slovak WHO office and Elena Jablonicka from Ministry of Health to establish collaboration and institutional partnership in our health literacy project run under the WHO National Health Literacy Demonstration Project scheme.

Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, PJ Šafárik university is glad to organize on 4th of March 2019 invited lecture by assoc. prof. Gabriel Gulis from University of Southern Denmark on the topic “Preparation, evaluation and management of research projects“.

Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, PJ Šafárik university is glad to organize on 4th of March 2019 invited lecture by assoc. prof. Gabriel Gulis from University of Southern Denmark on the topic “Global burden of disease“.

Today we participated in Bratislava on analytical workshop organized by director of the Research institute for child psychology and psychopathology with aim to analyze potential positive and negative aspects of planned transformation of counseling centers.

Within the workshop we presented preliminary results based on Care4Youth study and provided information about current state-of-art within system of care with the potential for improvement.