About Olena Yelizarova
I am a Leading Researcher at the State Institution “Marzieiev Institute for Public Health of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine”. A physician by training, with specializations in medical genetics and medical psychology, I work at the intersection of public health, child and adolescent health, mental health, and population-based research. My research focuses on how children, families, schools, and communities adapt to prolonged social disruption, including the COVID-19 pandemic and russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, with particular attention to community-level mental health support, pathways to care, and the ways families recognize and respond to children’s distress.
