Prof. Dr. Albena Kerekovska, PhD was born on 13 January 1965 in Varna. She graduated from First Language High School with English and German language teaching in Varna, and the Faculty of Medicine at HMI-Varna in 1990. From 1990 to 1992 she worked as a resident doctor in the Internal Medicine Department at Regional Hospital–Balchik, and from 1992 to 1995 — as a resident doctor in the Department of Occupational Hygiene at HEI-Varna. In 1995 she became a full-time Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Medicine and Health Organisation. She acquired the speciality of Social Medicine and Health Management in 1998. Between 2000 and 2004 she was a PhD student at the University of Glamorgan (Great Britain), where in 2004 she defended a dissertation thesis on International Policy of Health Promotion and Tobacco Control - Improvement of the Process of Transcultural Transfer. She was elected a full-time Associate Professor at the Department of Social Medicine and Health Organisation in 2007, and Professor — at the same Department in 2015.
From 2008 to 2012 she was Chairperson of the Research Ethics Committee at MU–Varna, and currently — its regular member.
Within 2006-2015 she was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Glamorgan–Great Britain (presently, the University of South Wales).
She has been a guest lecturer at the School of Public Health in Rennes (France); at the University of Glamorgan (Great Britain), and at the Aegean University–Izmir (Turkey).
She has been a graduate research supervisor for four PhD students, who successfully defended their dissertation theses in 2013 and 2014.
She has participated in 19 long-term projects, predominantly international ones, being the head of three of them.
She has been Vice Rector for Academic Affairs at Medical University–Varna since March 2012.
She has specialised in the field of Public Health, Modern Epidemiology, Health Policy and Medical Ethics at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland); the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge (Great Britain); the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Maastricht University (the Netherlands), as well as in Salzburg (Austria); Dubrovnik (Croatia) and Prague (the Czech Republic).
She has more than 140 scientific publications and reports, and more than 40 of them have been published abroad. Author and co-author of 13 monographs, textbooks and teaching aids. Her main research areas and developments lie in the field of Health Policy; Health Promotion; Research and Publication Ethics; Public Health Assessment and Determinants; Health Inequalities.
Editor-in-chief of Scripta Scientifica Salutis Publicae Journal, and member of the editorial board of Varna Medical Forum.
Scientific Publications
Open Access
European Public Health Association (EUPHA); Bulgarian Association of Health Management; Scientific Society for Social Medicine; Union of Scientists in Bulgaria; Association Public Health'99–Varna; Bulgarian Medical Association;
Expert on Bioethics at UNESCO.
