{"id":952,"date":"2012-12-08T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T09:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/?p=952"},"modified":"2012-12-10T18:19:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T14:19:01","slug":"faculty-scholarship-and-research-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/faculty-scholarship-and-research-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Scholarship and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petrosyan Varduhi.\u00a0<em>Access to Health Services in Times of Economic Downturn: the Case of Armenia<\/em>. 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0European Health Forum Gastein. Bad Gastein, Austria, October 3-6, 2012. [oral presentation]<\/p>\n<p>Truzyan Nune, Petrosyan Varduhi, Grigoryan Ruzanna.\u00a0<em>How Decisions on Tuberculosis Care Utilization and Place of Work among Migrant Workers from Armenia Impact TB Health Outcomes<\/em>. 34<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM): &#8221; From Evidence to Decision Making: Role of Behavioral Economics in Medicine.&#8221; Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 17-20, 2012. [poster]<\/p>\n<p>Petrosyan Varduhi.\u00a0<em>Re-establishing Universal and Comprehensive Health Coverage in former Soviet Union Countries<\/em>. 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Global Symposium on Health Systems Research. Beijing, China, October 31- November 3, 2012. [oral presentation]<\/p>\n<p>Harutyunyan Arusyak, Movsisyan Narine, Petrosyan Varduhi, Petrosyan Diana.\u00a0<em>Reduced Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Homes, Armenia, 2010<\/em>. 5th European Public Health Conference. Malta, November 8-11, 2012. [oral presentation]<\/p>\n<p>Grigoryan Ruzanna, Petrosyan Varduhi, Demirchyan Anahit, Truzyan Nune, Martirosyan Hripsime, Crape Byron.\u00a0<em>Evaluation of the Child Health State Certificate Program, Armenia 2011.<\/em>\u00a05th European Public Health Conference. Malta, November 8-11, 2012. [moderated poster presentation with brief oral presentation]<\/p>\n<p>Grigoryan Ruzanna, Truzyan Nune, Petrosyan Varduhi.\u00a0<em>Tuberculosis among Migrant Workers from Armenia, 2012<\/em>. 5th European Public Health Conference. Malta, November 8-11, 2012. [oral presentation]<\/p>\n<p>Movsisyan Narine, Harutyunyan Arusyak, Petrosyan Varduhi. Smoking cessation counseling preparedness among healthcare providers in Oncology center in Yerevan. European Journal of Public Health. Volume 22, Supplement 2, page 19, Oxford University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Demirchyan Anahit, Petrosyan Varduhi. Differences in Length of Stay in Pediatric Hospitals of Armenia, 2011. European Journal of Public Health. Volume 22, Supplement 2, page 151, Oxford University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Martirosyan Hripsime, Petrosyan Varduhi, Crape Byron. Rapid Appraisal of Diabetes Care in Armenia, 2011: Qualitative Research. European Journal of Public Health. Volume 22, Supplement 2, page 154, Oxford University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Movsisyan Narine K., Petrosyan Varduhi, Harutyunyan Arusyak, Petrosyan Diana, Muradyan Armen and Stillman Frances A.,\u00a0<em>Smoking behavior, attitudes, and cessation counseling among healthcare professionals in Armenia<\/em>.\u00a0BMC Public Health 2012. November 24, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Demirchyan Anahit, Petrosyan Varduhi, Thompson Michael E.\u00a0<em>Gender differences in predictors of self-rated health in Armenia: a population-based study of an economy in transition.\u00a0<\/em>International Journal for Equity in Health 2012. November 14, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Syuzanna Vasilyan<\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Political Science and International Affairs, has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair of European Studies, a grant sponsored by the European Union. Dr. Vasilyan carries out research and teaches courses on the Europe Union, International Relations and Contemporary Foreign Affairs. As the chair she will work to establish AUA as a center for European Studies. Numerous conferences, guest lectures and activities will be presented over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yevgenya Paturyan<\/strong>, Assistant Director of the Turpanjian Center for Policy Analysis and Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Affairs, has been awarded a grant from the Academic Swiss Caucasus Net to fund research entitled \u201cArmenian civil society after 20 years of transition: Still Post-communist?\u201d The research will engage staff from the Turpanjian Center for Policy Analysis and will be carried out over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aleksandr Grigoyan<\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Political Science and International Affairs and in the College of Business and Economics, was awarded a Sergey Mergelyan award for papers of general interest at the Armenian Economic Association Conference (October 2012). \u201cThe Impact of Growth and Structural Change on Inequality and Poverty in transition: Evidence from Armenia,\u201d co-authored with Edgar Begrakyan of the Central Bank of Armenia, is the first attempt to assess the impact of growth\/industry structure to inequality\/poverty, using Household Survey data 2004-2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Varduhi Petrosyan<\/strong>, Associate Professor, Associate Dean, and Director of the Center for Health Services Research and Development, presented at the 15th European Health Forum \u2013 Gastein, October 3-6, 2012, in Austria. Dr. Petrosyan spoke as an international expert in health systems research in the workshop \u201cThe Effects of the Financial Crisis on Health Systems in Russia and Other CIS Countries.\u201d She presented the overview of the Armenian health care system, recent developments, contemporary successes, and current challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irshat Madyarov<\/strong>, Assistant Professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, published \u201cContradictions in a Distance Course for a Marginalized Population at a Middle Eastern University\u201d in the April 2012 issue of the peer-reviewed journal <em>The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning<\/em>. The paper, co-authored by Aida Taef of Baha\u2019i Institute for Higher Education, explores cases of non-native English speaking students engaged in a distance English-medium course on critical thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}