History of the Department

Location: Almaty, 40 Masanchi str. Classroom building № 5, 114 office.

History of the department

The Department of “Health Policy and Management” was renamed by Rector’s Order №470 from 03.09.2021.
The founder and the first head of the department was the rector of the University, Honored Worker of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Akanov Aikan.
From 2014 to 2017, the department was headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor K.K. Kurakbayev.
From September 2017-2018, the department was headed by Candidate of Medical Sciences Sataev M.M.
From 2018 to the present, the head of the department is PhD, Associate Professor Kosherbayeva Lyazzat.
By order of the rector dated 12.09.2017 №496 “On the assignment of University departments to deaneries and academic departments”, the department is assigned to the Dosmukhamedov School of Public Health.

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The founder of the department was Rector of KazNMU (2008-2015)
Akanov Aikan Akanovich
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 Kuralbay Kurakbayev
doctor of medical sciences, professor

Kuralbay Kurakbaev is the author of patents on the development and author’s works, monographs and more than 200 scientific works published in international and Republican medical universities. Members of the Republican and regional headquarters on information and explanatory work on compulsory social and medical insurance (OSMS) from 2018, members of the public advisory council of OSMS from 2020, members of the board of Veterans of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 2021. He was awarded the honorary certificate of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995), the badges “outstanding healthcare worker of the USSR”, “outstanding healthcare worker of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (1997) and “for his contribution to the healthcare industry” (2004), the Jubilee Medal of the 20th anniversary of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2011), the 30th anniversary of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2021), Kurmet Order (2013).
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Murat Usataev

Candidate of Medical Sciences
Murat Usataev graduated from the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute in 1986. Candidate of Medical Sciences (Social Hygiene and Health Organization, Orenburg Medical Institute, Russian Federation, 1992).

Work experience:

07/2020 – present. Head of the Department of Strategic Monitoring and Development of Asfendiyarov Kazakh National University.
09/2019-07/2020. Head of the Strategy Center, Asfendiyarov Kazakh National medical University
12/2017-09/2019. Head of the Corporate Development, Strategy and Risk Management Department, S.D.Asfendiyarov Kazakh National University
09/2017- 03/2018. Head of the Department of Health Economics and Medical Insurance with a course in Economic Theory, JSC “KazNMU”
05/2015 –06./2016. Leading specialist, Research Institute of Cardiology and Internal Diseases of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty.
10/2014 – 04/2015. Short-term consultant, Institute of Public Health, Almaty
02/2012 – 09/2014. Deputy Executive Director, BOTA Public Foundation, Almaty.
08/2010 – 01/2012. Integration Manager – Deputy Country Manager, Technology Management Company, Almaty
10/2009 – 08/2010. Program Coordinator, Institute of Public Health, Almaty
05/2008 – 02/2010. Board Member from Eastern Europe and Central Asia of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland.
05/2006 – 09/2009. First Deputy Director General, National Center for the Formation of a Healthy Lifestyle, Almaty
02/1997 -03/2006.

– Head, WHO Office in Almaty;
– Head of the WHO Representative Office, Astana;
– Head of the WHO Office for Coordination and Relations with Kazakhstan. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

09/1994-04/1997. Head of the Department of Innovation and Nursing, Scientific Center of Medical and Economic Problems of Healthcare of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty
07/1993-04/1997. Leading researcher of the scientific and organizational Department. Scientific Center of Urology of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty
08/1986-07/1993. Junior Researcher, Senior researcher at the Research Institute of Regional Pathology of the Ministry of Health of the Kazakh USSR, Almaty.