Doncho Donev

Doncho Donev, MD, PhD, is a professor of social medicine and public health expert with more than 30 years experience in the field. After having graduated at the Faculty of Medicine (FM) "St. Cyril and Methodius" University in Skopje, R. Macedonia, in 1973, he completed specialization in social medicine in 1981 and was elected Assist. Lecturer in 1982. He received Doctoral Degree (PhD) in early 1993 at the FM-Skopje and was elected Assist. Professor in May 1993. Then he realized one-year postdoctoral studies in public health (Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program) at the Emory University School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA, USA, in the academic year 1993/94. He was elected Assoc. Professor in 1998 and Professor in 2003 at the Skopje FM and, since 2006, Professor at the European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD) University for Peace established by the United Nations - Belgrade ECPD Headquarters. Prof. Donev is founder and the first chief of the Chair of Social Medicine (1994) and founder and the first director of the Institute of Social Medicine (1998) within the Skopje FM. He was driving force for establishing Center/ School of Public Health (2003) and developing MPH and PhD studies curricula in Public Health at the FM-Skopje. His professional and research interest include broad scope of activities related to prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCD) and other priority health problems, health status and health needs of the vulnerable population groups, organization of health systems and healthcare management, health economics, health education and history and philosophy of medicine and public health. As a national counterpart of WHO he contributed for preparing the European Strategy and Action Plan for Prevention and Control of NCDs and related documents in R. Macedonia. Since 2000 he has actively participated in a broad scope of educational and research activities within the Stability Pact Project for Training and Research Cooperation in SEE countries (http://www.snz.unizg.hr/ph-see/index.htm). The contribution of Prof. Donev to public health development in Macedonia, SEE Region and broader has been recognized and he was awarded a number of national and international recognitions and rewards, among them - the Academician of the American Biographical Institute, in 2009. Prof. Donev is author of more than 300 articles, book chapters and papers presented and published in Proceedings and peer-review journals in biomedicine. He is Editor-in-Chief for Public Health of the Open Access Mac J Med Sci and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Materia Soc Med, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of numerous scientific journals. He is an editor and author/coauthor of a number of textbooks, monographs and books, including the following international books: 1st editor of the FPH-SEE Book on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (2007), co-editor of the PH-SEE Book on Health Systems and Their Evidence Based Development (2004) (http://www.snz.unizg.hr/ph-see/publications.htm), 1st editor of the Proceedings of the ECPD International Summer Schools on Management of Healthcare Institutions (2013). He speaks English, Serbian, Croatian and Bulgarian. He is married and has two children.
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