Preventive Medicine & Public Health

Biography

Vera Simovska is University Professor for Hygiene of Nutrition, Medical Dietetics and Health Management at the MIT University-Skopje. Prior to that, she was the founding director of the Master Studies for Nutrition, and Food Quality and Safety at the University of Bitola from 2012 to 2015. She was also a member of the Macedonian Committee for Health Promotion and an expert in the Ministry of Health from 2002 to 2011. From 2005, she is the first President of the National organization for the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity “HEPA Macedonia” which is a member of the WHO HEPA Europe. She was a National coordinator of several programs covered by the World Health Organization and an independent expert of the European Commission (FP7, HORIZON2020). Dr. Simovska research is focused in the area of public health nutrition, physical activity, obesity, cardiometabolic risk, and the NCD prevention and health promotion strategies and programs. She is the author of published academic books and chapters and over 100 original scientific articles.

Research Interest

Public Health Nutrition, Physical Activity, Obesity