Scientific degree: MA in sociology
Scientific position : assistant
Department: Public Health Department
OrcID No: 0000-003-2681-3221
Biography:
- assistant at the Public Health Department at the The Children’s Memorial Health Institute (CMHI) in Warsaw, which is the reference pediatric hospital for Poland
- contributed to public health projects: OLAF (EEA & Norway Grants), OLA (NCBiR), ToyBox (7th EU Framework Program), Zachowaj Równowagę (Swiss Contribution), and 2 projects financed under the National Health Program (operational objective 1: Improving the way of nutrition, nutritional status and physical activity of the society)
- participated in the elaboration of reference ranges of arterial blood pressure for the population of children and adolescents in Poland (OLAF and OLA project)
- author/co-author of 68 publications (37 indexed in PubMed) regarding health of children and adolescents, including socio-economic determinants of physical development, arterial blood pressure, underweight, overweight and obesity
Qualifications and trainings:
- MA in sociology: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Institute of Sociology
- Postgraduate Studies in Medical Law, Bioethics and Sociology of Medicine
- Postgraduate Studies in Social and Market Research
- Project management – training
- Project evaluation – training
- Statistical analysis using the SAS for Windows statistical package – training
- Other medical/research skills: Healthcare management – postgraduate studies
Research interests:
- socioeconomic and psychosocial determinants of health and physical development of children and adolescents
- the impact of lifestyle and environmental factors on health (lifestyle diseases)
- causes of deaths in children and adolescents
Contact:
e-mail: b.gurzkowska@ipczd.pl