Tengiz Verulava
Details
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College: School of Health and Biomedical Sciences
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Department: Health and Biomedical Sciences
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Campus: Bundoora West Australia
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tengiz.verulava@rmit.edu.au
About
Dr. Tengiz Verulava is a professor at Caucasus University and director of the Health Policy and Insurance Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences. He has over 25 years of experience on European Union and National (Georgia) funded projects. His research portfolio includes 19 books and over 300 journal papers in international peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is a Chief Editor of the scientific journal "Health Policy, Economics, and Sociology". Dr. Verulava is awarded the Order of Best Scientist by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (2018) and for the best scientific paper by the Association of Security Researchers Science for Sustainable Development and Security (2021). Dr. Verulava is an Honorary Research Fellow of RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia). Dr. Verulava is active in organizing annual scientific conferences on Health Policy, Economics, and Sociology. His research interests are focused on Social Policy, Public Health, Health Economics, Health Sociology, Global Health, Managed Care, Primary Health Care, Insurance, and Universal Health Care.
Research fields
- 420319 Primary health care
- 321005 Public health nutrition
- 4203 Health services and systems
Academic positions
- Editor in Chief International Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal “Health Policy, Economics and Sociology”
- Caucasus University
- Tbilisi, Georgia
- 6 Sep 2021 – Present
- Professor
- Caucasus University
- School of Business
- Tbilisi, Georgia
- 1 Sep 2020 – Present
Teaching interests
- Public health;
- health policy;
- Health Management;
- Health Economics;
- Insurance;
- Sociology of Health;
Research interests
- Health Sciences;
- Public health;
- health policy;
- Health Management;
- Health Economics;
- Insurance;
- Sociology of Health;
- Sociology of Economics;
- Political Sciences;
- Education systems and public health
