On 5-6th of June at NJSC “Kazakh National Medical University named after S.D. Asfendiyarov” hosted the 1st International Forum “Asfen.Forum, New Generation-2023”. Foreign speakers invited by the Department of Public Health as visiting professors and spoke at this forum:

Dr. Prof. Fakher Rahim, Director of Research Center Cihan University, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Included in the 1% of the most cited scientists in the world, with an h-index of 66. The topic of his report: “GLOBAL PREVALENCE OF MENTAL DISORDERS DUE TO COVID-19 IN THE MENA REGION: A SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE STUDY FROM 1990 TO 2019”;

Associate Professor, Team Leader Occupational Health, Abadan University of Medical Sciences Dr. Ramin Tabibi, presented the topic “Occupational Health Services Integrated in Primary Health Care, A Global View”;

Associate Professor Dzhusupov Kenesh Oskonbaevich, Head of the Department of public health, The Higher International Medical School of Kyrgyzstan, spoke with the report “Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of the Population of Kyrgyzstan Regarding Prevention of Iodine Deficiency Disorders”. He is the main Central Asian coordinator and developer of the Erasmus PLUS (CANERIEH) TEMPUS, TUTORIAL, HARMONEE, BERNICA projects.

They are long-term partners of Karlygash Kabdeshevna Toguzbayeva, professor of the Department of Public Health, and participate in the joint development of a number of scientific and educational programs, and also co-authors in joint foreign publications with a high Impact factor journals.

At the section “Public Health”, the Head teacher of the School of “Public Health” of the Tashkent Medical Academy, Urazalieva Ilmira Ravkatovna made a presentation “Electronic platform and mobile application to improve the quality of nursing (patronage) care provided to the population of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.