TOMSK, May 23 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk State University (TSU), Siberian State Medical University (SSMU) and Maastricht University (Netherlands) on Tuesday signed the agreement on the establishment in Tomsk the first in Russia Public Health Center, where scientists will be engaged in integrated study of health problems, the RIA Tomsk correspondent reports from the signing ceremony.
Earlier it was reported that in October 2016 representatives of TSU, SSMU and Maastricht University agreed to establish Russia's first Public Health Center, where scientists from three universities will undertake a comprehensive study of health problems, both from medical and sociological, philosophical, ethical and other aspects.
"We will deal with urgent health problems which are relevant for the whole world. In particular, we will be engaged in antibiotic resistance, the use of media in public health. The creation of such center will allow us to concentrate our efforts in this direction", – said the Professor of Maastricht University Kleisin Hartsman after signing the agreement.
As the rector of SSMU Olga Kobyakova reported, the new center does not assume a new infrastructure, the universities will work "virtually" and use their available resources to solve specific problems."We will not treat anyone here. This center has a bit different tasks which require those competencies that are absent in the medical school. It is psychology, philosophy, economics, sociology, which are represented in classical university. And we need Maastricht in order to study the best practices that exist in Europe", – she said.
In his turn, the rector of TSU Eduard Galazhinsky noted that in the modern world health is no longer understood as the absence of a disease, but as a quality of life and satisfaction with it. According to him, at Maastricht University the vast experience of work on this field is accumulated.
"Technologies, methods, algorithms which we at first will test in the research mode have to become the product, we will prove that they are effective, and then we will offer it to partners. The research cycle is not always short, it can be two or three years, but some technologies, groundwork for which we already have, will be realized in a year", – Galazhinsky added.