Marina Aleksandrovna Pozdnyakova (born February 24, 1965, in the city of Bor, Gorky Region) is a healthcare administrator, Doctor of Medical Sciences, professor, and physician of the highest qualification category; she heads the Department of Preventive Medicine at the continuing education center of the Nizhny Novgorod Medical Academy [1]. Her research focuses on the health of the population of Nizhny Novgorod and the Region: what people suffer from, how they live, and what factors underlie these outcomes [1][2].
A pediatrician turned healthcare administrator
She graduated from the Gorky Medical Institute named after S. M. Kirov with a specialization in pediatrics in 1988 [1].
Her areas of focus include public health status and the functioning of healthcare institutions, socio-hygienic aspects of health, sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population, and the work of the federal consumer rights protection and oversight service [1]. She is the author of more than two hundred scholarly works; eleven candidate dissertations have been defended under her supervision [1].
She served as deputy chair of the academy's doctoral dissertation council in the specialty of general hygiene, was a member of the working group on developing a demographic development concept for Nizhny Novgorod Region under the regional administration, served as an expert for the branch of the Central Attestation Commission in the Volga Federal District, and was the regional coordinator for the World Health Organization's World Health Survey project [1].
She served on the editorial boards of the Nizhny Novgorod Medical Journal and the journal Meditsinskiy Almanakh (Medical Almanac); she is fluent in English and taught in English for students in the English-language stream of the international students' faculty [1].
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1965 | born on 24 February in the city of Bor, Gorky Region |
| 1988 | graduated from the Gorky Medical Institute, specialty: pediatrics |
| 2009 | Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Continuing Professional Education Center; over 200 publications, 11 doctoral dissertations supervised by her |
| 2018 | the medical academy was reorganized into the Privolzhsky Research Medical University |
| 2023 | a study of the lifestyle of the adult population of Nizhny Novgorod in the context of the risk of chronic non-communicable diseases |
What She Studies
In 2023, together with S. O. Semysonov and S. M. Lavrentyeva, she published a social-hygienic study of the lifestyle of the adult population of Nizhny Novgorod — examining how widespread certain lifestyle factors leading to chronic non-communicable diseases are, and how these vary by sex and by city district [2].
The work compares the city's districts by the prevalence of risk factors, with the aim of making the findings usable by municipal healthcare and social protection authorities in planning preventive measures [2]. The tool employed was a sociological survey; the method was epidemiological monitoring [2].
The same range of topics — the morbidity of the Region's population according to social-hygienic monitoring data, the health of professional motor vehicle drivers in a large city, and the organization of health-preserving environments in enclosed spaces — she continues to develop in her subsequent works [2].
The Academy That Became a University
By order of the Minister of Health of Russia dated February 8, 2018, the medical academy was reorganized into the Privolzhsky Research Medical University; the Privolzhsky Federal Medical Research Center was merged into it, and the city gained its first university clinic with approximately five hundred beds [3].
The department most closely related to her field of work also changed its name: in March 2015, the Department of Public Health and Healthcare was renamed the Department of Social Medicine and Healthcare Organization. From 1994 to 2019, it was headed by Professor Igor Kamayev, under whose supervision fifty dissertations were defended; since April 2019, the department has been led by Professor Irina Pereslegina [4].
Since 2017, the department has held an annual all-Russian conference, "Medicine and Law under Contemporary Conditions" [4].
Sources
- yumpu.com — Who's Who in Nizhny Novgorod Region — Pozdnyakova Marina Aleksandrovna, Head of the Department of Preventive Medicine, CPD NGMA. Issue 5, p. 154 (archive)
- cyberleninka.ru — CyberLeninka — Pozdnyakova M. A., Semisынov S. O., Lavrentyeva S. M. Lifestyle of the Adult Population of a Modern Metropolis
- Kommersant (Volga Region) — Nizhny Novgorod — Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy renamed: order of the Minister of Health dated February 8, 2018 (archive)
- pimunn.ru — PIMU — Department of Public Health and Healthcare: history, renaming in March 2015, department heads (archive)