{"id":46781,"date":"2024-09-25T15:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mu-sofia.bg\/?page_id=46781"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:10:06","slug":"prof-angelika-velkova-monova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mu-sofia.bg\/en\/university-information\/administration\/rectorate\/prof-angelika-velkova-monova\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Angelika Velkova \u2013 Monova, MD, PhD, DSc"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"46781\" class=\"elementor elementor-46781\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-101f39c elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"101f39c\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6d7fc9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c6d7fc9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Vice Rector for Academic Affairs<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51ef51d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"51ef51d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Education, specialties and degrees:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Professor at MU-Sofia since 2014. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Professor at MU-Pleven since 2012. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Doctor of Medical Sciences since 2012.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"> Specialty &#8220;Social Medicine and Health Management&#8221; (1993) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Master in Public Health Epidemiology (1995) at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"> Has training and specializations in Great Britain, Belgium, USA, Netherlands, Italy, Poland.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Higher education in medicine &#8211; VMI-Pleven &#8211; 1988<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-75e153c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"75e153c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f1a1b75\" data-id=\"f1a1b75\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-731358a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"731358a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>Research and teaching activities:<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Teach &#8220;Social Medicine&#8221; in Bulgarian and English to medical students, as well as teaches 3 more disciplines in the master&#8217;s and bachelor&#8217;s programs at the Faculty of Public Health &#8220;Prof. Dr. Ts. Vodenicharov, MD&#8221; at MU-Sofia.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"> Scientific supervisor of 12 successfully defended PhD students and more than 150 master&#8217;s degree students.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Scientific consultant of 30 defended PhD students in various fields of clinical medicine.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"> Prof. Velkova&#8217;s research work is in the field of comparative analysis of public health in European countries, mortality preventable with health interventions, clinical epidemiology, health promotion.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Author and co-author of more than 200 scientific publications in Bulgaria and abroad, 3 monographs, incl.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">one abroad, 7 textbooks and teaching aids in social medicine, health epidemiology, health promotion strategies.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Prof. Velkova&#8217;s scientific works have over 600 citations, of which 527 by foreign authors.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">She has an h-index of 9. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Member of the Board of Directors and Scientific Secretary of the Bulgarian National Institute of Public Health.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Author and leader of 3 educational and infrastructure projects with European funding.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">She is a leading researcher and participant in 7 institutional and 5 international research and educational projects.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">She is the initiator and first chairman of the National Network for Global Health in 2012. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Creator and methodological leader of the Student Network &#8220;Air for Health&#8221; at MU-Sofia.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2975138\" data-id=\"2975138\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e0ebc4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9e0ebc4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>Positions held:<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><ul><li><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Deputy Dean for International Activities and Projects of the Faculty of Public Health &#8220;Prof. Dr. Ts. Vodenicharov, MD&#8221;, MU &#8211; Sofia.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">4 terms as Head of Department, Deputy Dean for Academic Activities of the Faculty of Public Health and Deputy Rector for International Cooperation at MU-Pleven.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Member of the Control Council and the Council of Medical Science of MU-Sofia.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/li><li><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Prof. Velkova has been a certified quality auditor since 2004 and has been an expert of the NEAA for 20 years, having been the head of expert groups for program and institutional accreditations.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>Awards:<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">She has received numerous honors and academic awards &#8220;Golden Panacea&#8221; from MU-Sofia for special contributions in the medical and social field.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADMINISTRATION Prof. Angelika Velkova \u2013 Monova, MD, PhD, DSc Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Education, specialties and degrees: Professor at MU-Sofia since 2014. Professor at MU-Pleven since 2012. Doctor of Medical Sciences since 2012. Specialty &#8220;Social Medicine and Health Management&#8221; (1993) Master in Public Health Epidemiology (1995) at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. 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