Direction:Healthcare
Position:Associate Professor
Nino Mirzikashvili was born in 1978 in Tbilisi. In 1995 he graduated from 61st Secondary School at Tbilisi with honors and in the same year she enrolled in Tbilisi State Medical University, Faculty of Preventive Medicine. He graduated from TSMU in 2001 and started work as a social worker at M. Iashvili Central Clinical Hospital in the same year. In 2001-2004, Nino studied Public Health at TSMU on post graduate level. In 2004 he moved to work as a researcher at the Curatio International Foundation. In 2004, Nino received a scholarship from the British Government and Soros Foundation and went to study in the UK. In 2005, Nino Mirzikashvili graduated from the University of Warwick, she got Master’s degree in Public Health. The following year, Nino again received a scholarship from the British government and continued her studies in public administration at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2005, Nino did an internship at the Department of Health in the UK for 3 months.
In 2006, Nino Mirzikashvili returned to Georgia and used to work at USAID funded international project. In the following years, Nino worked on various international projects as a health policy expert.
From 2007 to 2012, Nino Mirzikashvili worked at the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs as the Head of the Regulation Department, the Head of the International Relations Department and the Head of the Ministry’s Office.
Nino is currently an expert on the UNDP, a national consultant of the UNICEF, and a member of the Executive Board of the Open Society Georgia Foundation.
Nino has been engaged in academic activities since 2004. As an invited lecturer, he taught at the Aieti Medical Institute, TSU Faculty of Medicine, TSMU School of Public Health, and the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.
Nino has participated in many international conferences and trainings.
she has a husband and two children.
Scientific interests / research interests
Health Policy and Management, Public Health, Sustainable Development Goals, Maternal and Child Health, Epidemiology of Noncommunicable Diseases, Strategic Planning, Project development and implementation;
Featured publications
⦁ Health and well-being for all: an approach to accelerating progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in countries in the WHO European Region” Bettina Menne, Emilia Aragon de Leon, Marleen Bekker, Nino Mirzikashvili, Stephen Morton, Amanda Shriwise, Göran Tomson, Pia Vracko, Christoph Wippel, , European Journal of Public Health, Volume 30, Issue Supplement_1, March 2020
⦁ “Evaluation of the new cervical cancer screening program in Georgia” Nino Mirzikashvili, Tina Beruchashvili, Louise-Anne McNutt, International Journal Gynecology and Obstetrics, Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2012
Books
Co- author of the Book “Human Rights in Patient Care” A Practitioner Guide, Georgia 2009
Co-Author of the book “The Book for Patients -Human Rights and Health Care” 2011
Articles in magazines
⦁ “Mian trends in access to primary health care for adolescents in Georgia,” Nino Mirzikashvili MD, MSc; Nata Kazakhashvili, MD, PhD, Georgia Medical News, #3(252) March 2016
⦁ “Adolescents Health Services in Georgia” Nino Mirzikashvili, Louise-Anne McNutt, Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, May 2016
⦁ “Evaluation of adolescents’ main risk factors and role of primary health care in health promotion issues” Nino Mirzikashvili, Levan Baramidze, Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, December 2016
⦁ ” The role of primary health care in assessing and preventing health risk factors of adolescents in Georgia” Nino Mirzikashvili MD, MSc, Levan Baramidze, MD, PhD, Georgia Medical News, #3(264) March 2017
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Five years of experience at senior management level in public sector (Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia). Three years of working experience at private medical business as a director. Three years of working experience at the hospital level. Five years of experience in the International Organization/Nongovernmental Organizations.