The Social Pharmacy Department was set up in July 1st, 2011 in order to enhance quality of students training in qualification level ‘Bachelor’, ‘Specialist’, ‘Master’ (The NUPh Rector’s Order of May 5th, 2011 No. 260)
Since the foundation and until 2015 Alla Kotvitska, Doctor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Rector of NUPh was Head of Social Pharmacy Department.
Inna Kubarieva, Ph.D., the associate professor was Head of Social Pharmacy Department in the period of 2015-2019.
Alina Volkova, Ph.D., the associate professor has been Head of Social Pharmacy Department since 2019.
Department staff includes a Doctor of Pharmacy, 12 Ph.D. (Pharmacy), 2 Ph.D. (Law), a Ph.D. (Social Science), a Ph.D. (Social Communications) among them 9 Associate professors and 5 Assistant professors, and also 1 senior laboratory assistants.
During the 12 years of existence of the Department, we developed and published: the National textbooks «Fundamentals of Law and Legislation in pharmacy» and «Social pharmacy» (in Ukrainian language); 14 manuals: «History of Medicine and Pharmacy», «Extreme Medicine», «Pharmaceutical Law in schemes and tables», «Pharmaceutical Law and Legislation» (in English language); «Marketing Service», «Legal and ethical standards of activity in the industry», «Sociology of Organization and Modern Economic Theory», «Social pharmacy». More than 90 guidances and workbooks for workshops and seminars.
According to the Department’s Curriculum, the following courses are taught:
- Academic Integrity
- Introduction to the Specialty
- Pharmaceutical Law and Legislation
- Organization and Economics of Pharmacy
- Social Pharmacy
- Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management
- Social Economy in Pharmacy
- Pharmaceutical Information
- Medical Law, Professional Ethics and Deontology
- Basics of Constitutional Law
- Jurisprudence and Medical Law
- Social Economy
- Pharmaceutical Social Management
- Sociology of Organization and Modern Economic Theory
Distance courses on Social Economics in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Law and Legislation, and Social Pharmacy were developed and certified.
Research works are aimed at enhancing pharmaceutical care for a population with regard to socio-economic factors and carried out in such areas as: verification and improvement of socially effective mechanisms for ensuring the availability of pharmaceutical care, including the organization of a reimbursement system for the cost of medicines, the organization and provision of palliative and hospice care; legal regulation of medicines circulation, harmonization of domestic legislation in accordance with EU requirements; pharmacoeconomic and socio-economic studies of the use of medicines.
A Doctorate thesis and 13 Ph.D. theses were completed and defended at the Department of Social Pharmacy between 2011 and 2023 and currently, 4 doctorate and 7 Ph.D. theses are in progress.
The scientific and professional journal “Social Pharmacy in Health Care” was created in 2015, which is included in the “List of Scientific Professional Publications” (2016) and assigned category “B” (2019).
