Chashchin Valery

Chief Researcher

vchashchin@hse.ru

Education:

1969 Leningrad Sanitary and Hygienic Medical Institute, specialty - Sanitary and Hygienic
Dissertation work: “Occupational health and professional pathology in the production of aluminum by electrolytic method in the Far North”
Doctoral work: "Occupational health and occupational pathology in the production of non-ferrous metals"

Scientific degree: Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

Honored scientist of the Russian Federation, Head of the research Laboratory of complex problems of Hygiene and Epidemiology of the North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, Member of the expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission for Biomedical sciences, Scientific councils of the Ministry of Health and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences on Reproductive Health, Occupational Medicine and occupational pathology, Academic Council of Rospotrebnadzor, expert groups on ecology and occupational health of the International Union for Circumpolar Medicine. Member of a number of international organizations and academies, including an expert from Russia in the working groups of the Arctic Council, the Germany-Russia Cooperation Council, the New York Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Natural Sciences (Hanover, Germany), the Northern Forum Academy (Finland); Academy of Polar Medicine (Novosibirsk).

By presidential decree of 05/31/98. V.P. Chashchin was awarded the Order of Honor, awarded the title of Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in 2001 in the field of science and technology, he was awarded the honorary title "Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation), was awarded the medal" For Strengthening the Military Commonwealth ", the medal of E. Tsiolkovsky and Diploma of the International Federation of Cosmonautics. He is a laureate of the All-Russian contest “Labor Glory of Russia”. He has diplomas of the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation and the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation, Governor of St. Petersburg, Governor of the Murmansk Region, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Russian Social Insurance Fund

Scientific interests:

human ecology, occupational health, Arctic population

News

NArFU Hosted Roundtable on Migratory Birds as Sources of Pollutants and Pathogens Transfer to the Arctic

Today, October 12, NArFU Arctic Biomonitoring Laboratory hosted a roundtable that discussed the “Monitoring of Risks Associated with Transfer of Pollutants and Pathogens to the Arctic by Migratory Birds”. Attended by leading experts and early career scientists based in Russia, the roundtable was held within the framework of the III International Conference “Biomonitoring in the Arctic — 2022”.

An employee of the Arctic Biomonitoring Laboratory won a grant "Young Scientists of Pomorie"

Research assistant of the Arctic Biomonitoring Laboratory, PhD student of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Ecology and Genomics of Hydrobionts at the Institute for Comprehensive Research of the Arctic of the Federal Research Center for Comprehensive Research of the Arctic Dmitry Kotsur won a grant "Young Scientists of Pomorie" with the project "Research of the impact of polychlorinated biphenyls on the reproductive system of fish Danio rerio".

NArFU researchers delivered a series of lectures to students of the University of Oxford

Last week, upon the invitation from the University of Oxford, the researchers at NArFU contributed to Oxford University Polar Forum, whose recent series of seminars was devoted to the Russian Arctic.