About the school

The Arkhangelsk International School of Public Health (ISPHA) has been founded at Northern State Medical University in 2006.

In September 2006, the school  was officially opened as a part of international cooperation between NSMU and Nordic universities with financial support of the collaboration programme of health care affairs and social issues in the Barents Euro-Arctic region.

The School is a result of international cooperation with seven universities: Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk (Russia), Institute of Community Medicine of the University of Tromsø (Tromsø, Norway), Nordic School of Public Health (Gothenburg, Sweden), Umeå International School of Public Health (Umeå, Sweden), Mid-Sweden University (Sundsval, Sweden), Tampere School of Public Health (Tampere, Finland), National Institute of Public Health (Oslo, Norway). These seven universities compose affiliate network in the frame of the project and all of them take active part in School activity by means of teaching stuff.

During existence ISPHA has established a reputation both in Russia and abroad. In October 2007 ISPHA became first, and for present time it is only one, Russian School of Public Health, accepted as a member to Association of schools of Public Health in the Europian region (ASPHER). In December 2007 ISPHA has been presented in WHO bulletin as one of the first educational institution in Russia in Public Health area, proposing education in Public Health sphere in accordance with international standards.  

ISPHA’s ongoing research projects have already been presented at the highest international level including the World Congress of Epidemiology in Porto Alegre, Brazil in September 2008, the Annual Meeting of the European Public Health Association in Lisbon, Portugal in November 2008, the XII World Public Health Congress in Istambul, Turkey in May 2009, the Baltic Congress on Public Health in Tartu, Estonia in 2010, the European Congress of Epidemiology in Florence, Italy in 2010, the European Congress on Public Health in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2010, the Nordic Congress of Epidemiology in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2011, the World Congress of Epidemiology in Edinburgh, UK in 2011, the Conference on Global Health and Public Health Education in Hong Kong in 2011.

Mission 

Mission of the school is to increase the level of knowledge in methods  of research and practice in the field of public health and promote the implementation of this knowledge in Northwest Russia through providing a Master of Public Health education at the Northern State Medical University in Arkhangelsk.