SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE FACULTY 

 Active scientific projects funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan:

1. “The psychological impact of COVID-19 on people employed in small and medium-sized businesses in the health care system in urban and rural areas. Head: Gulnara Zhambaevna Kapanova, head of department. Healthcare policies and organizations 

 Active Erasmus + Projects

1. Erasmus + 2019-2022 «Developing services for Individuals with Disabilities»

2. Child C.A. (Erasmus) 2019-2022 - Improvement of children care teaching as a template for upgrading medical education in Central Asia – ChildCA

3. BACE (Erasmus) 2021-2024 - Developing Academic Capacity in Global Health in Eastern Europe / Central Asia

4. LMQS (Erasmus) 2021-2024 - Licence, Master professionnels en formation ouverte et a distance pour le management strategique de la qualite et la gestion des risques en sante en Russie, au Kazakhstan et en Azerbaijan- LMQS

International projects 

1. International Research in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh

2. Joint project with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)

3. International project to create a register of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, in collaboration with Imperial College, London

4. International multicenter project Population Urban Rural Epidemiological study (PURE)

5. INVICTUS multicenter clinical trial carried out in 40 countries of the world under the leadership of the Canadian scientific organization PHRI, Hamilton Health Science Corporation, McMaster University, Canada

6. Individual grant and scientific work based on the Department of Tumor and Diagnostic Pathology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, KAKENHI, Japan)

Participation in various scientific projects:  

1. Neurology commission on stroke: evidenced-based pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke

2. Global COVID stroke IV thrombolysis project

3. "CASCADE" pathogenetic aspects of stroke in Covid-19

4. "Clinical and immunological characteristics of SARSCov-2-associated immunopathology and their consequences"

5. "Development of a method for the treatment of chronic pain using a new class of drugs based on botulinum toxin"

6. "Analysis of the clinic and outcomes of cryoglobulinemic vasculitis in a zone of high endemicity for HCV and HBV infections"

7. "Differential diagnosis of early seronegative spondyloarthritis in an endemic zone for brucellosis"

2020-2021 years

The Faculty of medicine and healthcare of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University became a participant in the project under the Erasmus + program: Improvement of children care teaching as a template for upgrading medical education in Central Asia (ChildCA).

The strategic goal of the project is to support the modernization, professionalization and internationalization of postgraduate training in the field of children care management in Central Asia (CA) Countries - Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - in cooperation with HEI from Italy, Germany and Poland willing to share their expertise and experience in the fields of Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery and Child Neuropsychiatry postgraduate training.

It’s a joint project organized as a feasibility study to become, if successful, a structural project for a sustainable and long lasting improvement in the organization of postgraduate medical training in CA countries, not only in pediatrics but possibly also in other fields of medical care.

The result of the project will be to emphasize the importance of children care in the ongoing process of Health Care Reform in CA countries, thus contributing to reduce the infant mortality, through an updated approach to the modern techniques of neonatal and pediatric care, widely resorting on the tools made available by ICT.

Outputs will be new curricula and new training strategies devoted to an integrated, holistic care of the child, harmonized with those adopted in EU countries and aiming to achieve the same results. To offer a solid and sustainable basis on which to ground these results, state-of-the-art ICT teaching and teleconferencing systems will be provided to all partners, with on-the-job training. Project’s preparatory activities of situation analysis and pediatric facilities census will also provide Governmental authorities an invaluable tool, offering a sound basis on which to build any future project of intervention on the health system and manpower devoted to the care of children in CA Countries.

Ultimate impact will hopefully be a reduction in infant mortality and a substantial increase in life expectancy at birth for the populations of partner Countries, now living in average some ten years less than EU population.

The participants of this project are UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA (ITALI), UNIVSITAET ULM (GERMANY), UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI (POLAND), AL-FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (KAZKHSTAN), BUKHARA STATE MEDICAL INSTITUTE (UZBEKISTAN), INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION IN HEALTH SHPHERE OF REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN (TAJIKISTAN), KAZAKH MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF CONTINUING EDUCATION (KAZAKHSTAN), KHATLON STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (TAJIKISTAN), THE STATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION – EVICENNA TAJIK STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (TAJIKISTAN), THE STATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION – EVICENNA TAJIK STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (TAJIKISTAN), TASHKENT PEDIATRIYA TIBBIYOT INSTITUTI (UZBEKISTAN).

The project starts in January 2019 and scheduled for 36 months.

The first on site working meeting of the participants is scheduled for February 19-23 of this year in Italy.