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Gerilovych Anton, DVM, PhD, ScDr., SR, Prof., NAAS Corresponding Member
President of One Health Institute, NGO

phone: + 380 67 7181704
E-Mail: antger2011@gmail.com

Biosketch:  Gerilovych A.P. was born in Kharkiv (04-01-1981).

• Since 2002 – veterinarian (graduated from Kharkov State Zooveterinary Academy) and post-graduate student (2002-2005).
• From October to December 2005 – junior researcher.
• Since December 2005 – Head of molecular diagnostics laboratory (since 2015 – Department for molecular diagnostics in NSC IECVM).
• Since July 2012 – Deputy Director for Research in NSC IECVM
• Since August 2022 – Senior Researcher in SSRILDVSE
• Professor (2015), Corresponding Member of NAAS (2016)
• 2014-2022 – Editor-in-Chief of Journal for Veterinary Medicine, Biotechnology and Biosafety
• Since October 2022 – Editor-in-Chief of One Health Journal (OHI and SSRILDVSE)
• Since July 2007 – scientific degree of Senior Researcher, since 2011 – Sc. Dr. (Dr. Hab.).
• Since September 2015 – Professor.
• State Award in Sciences and Techniques of Ukraine (2009),
• Award of Government of Ukraine for innovative developments (2017)

   

  Prof Dr Gerilovych is author and co-author of 20 diagnostic kits registered in Ukraine, 28 methodic guidelines, 38 patents of Ukraine, more than 200 papers and abstracts, devoted to molecular diagnostics, epidemiology, biotechnology, biosafety and virology

Korovin Ihor, DVM, MS (public governance),
Vice-president of One Health Institute, NGO
Position: director
Organization / Company “SRI Veterinary Biotechnologies” Ltd.,

Nauki Av., 40, Kharkiv, 61-166, Ukraine,
phone: +380 98 8437046
E-Mail: korovin.vetbio@gmail.com

Experts

Golovko Anatolii, DVM, PhD, ScDr, Prof., NAAS Academician
Leading expert in the field of biosafety and biosecurity
NGO “One Health Institute” (NGO)

phone: +380 67 5771388
E-Mail: anatolii.golovko@gmail.com

Education:

• 1983 – graduated from the Veterinary Faculty of the Kharkiv Zooveterinary Institute
• 1989 – graduated from the postgraduate course of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine
• 1989 – Candidate of Veterinary Sciences degree
• 1994 – senior researcher
• 1996 – scientific degree of Doctor of Veterinary Sciences
• 2002 – elected a corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences
• 2003 – Professor
• 2007 – elected as academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences

Working experience:

• He started his career as a veterinarian in 1983.
• 1985 – Head of the Veterinary and Sanitary Expertise Laboratory No. 5, Kharkiv
• 1985 – 1999 – postgraduate student, junior researcher, senior researcher, head of the laboratory of young animals’ diseases of IECVM UAAS
• 1999 – 2000 – Deputy Director of the IECVM for Scientific Work
• 2000 – 2006 – Director of the State Scientific and Control Institute of Biotechnology and Microbial Strains of the Ministry of Agriculture (SSCIBSM)
• 2006 – 2010 – Vice President of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine
• 2010 – 2011 – First Vice President of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine
• 2012 – 2013 – Director of the State Research Institute for Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary and Sanitary Expertise
• 2013 – 2021 – Director of the State Research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary Expertise
• 2021 – 2023 – Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
• 2023 – 2024 – Director of the State Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Sciences
• 2024 – present – Leading expert of the NGO “Institute of One Health” in the field of biosafety and biosecurity

Scientific works – 441 scientific works, including 10 monographs, methodological recommendations and instructions, 5 copyright certificates and 47 patents
Scientific developments – 6 vaccines, 7 therapeutic and prophylactic drugs, 8 therapeutic drugs, 12 diagnostic test systems, including 5 PCR systems. Regulatory documents and standards for the implementation of GMP, GLP and GDP requirements in the Ukrainian system of production and distribution of veterinary drugs.
Author of numerous regulatory documents, including the Law of Ukraine “On Veterinary Medicine”

Rosada Mykhailo, Sc. Dr (MD)
Leading expert on public health
One Health Institute, NGO

E-Mail: rosada@ukr.net

Education:

• 1997 – Bogomolets National Medical University (medical and preventive care)
• 2003 – Candidate of Medical Sciences, specializing in epidemiology
• 2018 – Doctor of Medical Sciences, specializing in Hygiene
• 2019 – Highest qualification category in the organization of medical care for the population
• 2021 – Highest qualification category, specializing in Epidemiology
• 2022 – National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (Master’s degree in Public Management and Administration)

Scientific and professional activities:

• 1998 – Public Health Physician
• 1997–1998 – Epidemiologist – Intern at the Kyiv City Sanitary and Epidemiological Station
• 1999–2001 – Epidemiologist at the Central City Clinical Hospital of Kyiv
• 2001–2006 – Chief Epidemiologist at the Main Health Department of Kyiv
• 2003–2005 – Head of the AIHA USAID Training Centre for the Prevention of Nosocomial Infections
• 2006–2013 – Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Darnytskyi District of Kyiv
• 2009–2010 – Director of the State Enterprise ‘Training and Methodological Centre for Hygiene Issues’ of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine
• 2013 – 2014 – Director of the Department of Strategic Planning and Social and Hygienic Monitoring of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine
• 2014–2024 – Director of the municipal enterprise ‘Profdezinfektsiya’, Kyiv
• 2018–2022 – Leading Researcher at the O.M. Marzieiev Institute of Public Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
  – 2024–2025 – Director General of the State Institution ‘Centre for Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine’

Scientific publications:

70 scientific papers have been published, including 15 in scientific periodicals in Ukraine that are indexed in international scientific databases Scopus and WoS,
17 in scientific periodicals recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine,
4 monographs, 34 scientific papers and abstracts

Public activities:

• Since 2014 – Co-founder of the Infectious Control in Ukraine, NGO
• Since 2018 – WHO National Expert on Biocides in Ukraine
• Since 2025 – One Health Institute, NGO – leading expert on public health

Chechet Olha, DVM, PhD, ScDr.,
Leading Expert on Veterinary Sanitary and Hygiene
One Health Institute, NGO

phone: +380 98 4930299
E-Mail: kiev-kiev12@ukr.net

Education:

• Since 1996 – veterinarian (graduated from Odesa Agricultural Institute)
• 2016 – PhD (veterinary and sanitary examination), National University of Bioresources and Nature Management of Ukraine
• 2023 – ScDr (veterinary pharmacology and toxicology), S.Z. Gzhytskyi University for veterinary medicine and biotechnology
  

Working experience:

• 1996 – 2003 in the department of microbiology and virology Odessa Agricultural Institute
  DVM in Farmatsia PJSC,
  DVM in Sofiental LLC,
• 2004 DVM in of the management apparatus of the Odesa regional service of state veterinary and sanitary control and supervision at the state border and transport
• 2005-2009 – deputy head of the Odesa regional service of veterinary sanitary control and supervision at the state border and transport
• 2009-2016 – head of the department of veterinary and sanitary measures at the State border of the State Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service of Ukraine
• 2016-2018 – director of the Animal Husbandry and Poultry Department of AKVA VITA TD LLC.
• 2021-2024 – Director of the State Research Institute for Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary-Sanitary Expertise State Food Safety and Consumer Protection Service of Ukraine
• 2024 – present time Leading Expert on Veterinary Sanitary and Hygiene of One Health Institute, NGO 

Dr Chechet is author and co-author of 4 veterinary preparations, ~20 methodic guidelines, 5 patents of Ukraine, ~ 160 papers and abstracts, devoted to veterinary sanitary, disinfection, biosafety, and epidemiology

Kovalenko Viacheslav, DVM, PhD, Sc.Dr., Prof.
Chief expert on disinfection and sanitation
NGO “One Health Institute” (NGO),
Chief Research Scientist of the State Research Institute for Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary Expertise

30, Donetska St., Kyiv, 03151
phone: +380 67 7568644
E-Mail: kovalenkodoktor@gmail.com

 Born on July 12, 1971.

Education:

• 1993 р. Pohrebnyak Bila Tserkva Agricultural Institute, specializing in veterinary medicine.
• 2004 – Candidate of Veterinary Sciences (16.00.03 – Veterinary Microbiology and Virology).
• 2007 – Senior Researcher.
• 2012 – Doctor of Veterinary Sciences (16.00.06 – Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Sanitation).
• 2018 – Professor in the field of specialty 211, veterinary medicine. 

Working experience:

• 1993-1996 – veterinarian of the agricultural enterprise “Nova Ukraina” in Zyme village. Zazymie, Brovary district, Kyiv region.
• 1996 – 2001 – chief veterinarian of Raduga LLC, Brovary. Brovary.
• 2004 – 2014 – scientific and senior scientific positions at the Institute of Veterinary Medicine of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, since 2007 – NAAS.
• 2014 – Head of the Museum Department of the Prokopovych Institute of Beekeeping.
• 2015 – Deputy Director for Scientific and Innovative Activities of the Prokopovych Institute of Beekeeping.
• 2016 – Deputy Director for Scientific and Innovative Activities of the Institute of Beekeeping of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• 2017-2022 – Head of the sector for the development of the regulatory framework on biosafety, State Scientific and Control Institute of Biotechnology and Microbial Strains.
• 2022 – Head of the Laboratory for Standardization and Control of the Effectiveness of Sanitation and Disinfection Products of the State Scientific Control Institute of Biotechnology and Microbial Strains.
• Since 2022 – Chief Research Scientist of the Research Virology Department of the SIRFSCE.He is the author of 413 published scientific and methodological works, including 10 monographs, 2 collections, 47 patents of Ukraine for inventions and utility models, 1 SOU, 4 departmental norms of VNTP-APC, 23 technical specifications, 1 instruction, 37 methodological instructions, 10 technological regulations.

Ushkalov Artem, DVM, Ph., Post-doc
Leading expert in the field of microbiology
One Health Institute, NGO

phone: +380 99 3432187
E-Mail: vetdocman@gmail.com

Education:

• 2011 – graduated with honour from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Kharkiv State Zooveterinary Academy (specialization – “Laboratory business”)
• 2015 – graduated from PhD school at the State Scientific and Control Institute of Biotechnology and Strains of Microorganisms
• 2016 – Candidate of Veterinary Sciences (veterinary microbiology, epizootology of infectious diseases and immunology)
• 2023 – present – post-doc at the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

Working experience:

• Started his career as a veterinary laboratory assistant in 2010
• 2012 – 2017 Head of the Bacteriology Department of the Kharkiv Regional State Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine.
• 2017 – 2023 – Chief Specialist of the Food and Feed Safety Department of the Food Safety and Veterinary Medicine Department, State Veterinary Inspector, State Inspector of the Main Directorate of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection in Kharkiv Region.
• Since 2023 – post-doc at the Department of Veterinary Epidemiology and Animal Health, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
• Since 2023 – veterinarian of the bacteriological department of the Kharkiv Regional State Laboratory of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection (part-time).

Scientific works – 56 scientific works, including 2 methodological recommendations, 1 monograph, 3 patents of Ukraine for utility model.
Scientific developments  – Test system for detection of DNA of Yersinia enterocolitica by polymerase chain reaction “Yersinia enterocolitica-TEST”