Impact Activities
Invited Talks
May 2018
“Long-Term Care System in England and Future Challenges to Its Sustainability” – Keynote speaker at the I International Congress on care, equality and diversity, University of Valencia, Spain.
Feb 2018
“Short-term Job Loss – Long-term Consequences: The Effect of Youth Unemployment on Long-term Health and Wellbeing Outcomes”. Invited Speaker at the Employment Research Seminar Series, International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland.
Oct 2017
Invited panelist for the panel on research dissemination, organized by Dandelion project, at the conference conference „European Research Excellence - Impact and Value for Society“, Tallinn, Estonia
May 2016
Invited speaker for “Gender Equality” panel at the EBRD Annual Meeting and Business Forum in London, UK
May 2016
Invited speaker for “Unlocking Human Potential: Gender in the Region” panel at the SITE 2016 Development Day “Traces of Transition: Unfinished Business 25 Years Down the Road?”, Stockholm, Sweden.
Sep 2015
“BMI, Physical Activity and Future Care Needs” with Julien Forder and Katerina Gousia. Invited at the Academic Unit for Health Economics at the University of Leeds.
Oct 2014
“Inequality in Total Returns to Work in Ukraine: Taking a Closer Look at Workplace (Dis)amenities”. Presented at the Invited Seminar, International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland.
Sep 2014
Invited panelist for “What is a fair price for happiness and a good quality of life?”, Platform Ukraine Symposium, UCL, London.
Feb 2014
Invited talk on current situation in Ukraine, Oxford University Ukrainian Society
Nov 2013
“Long-run Effects of Severe Economic Recessions: Drastic Changes in Working Hours and Male BMI Trajectories”, Health Economics Seminar, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Conference / Seminar Presentations
“Impact of TB Epidemic on Worker and Firm Productivity: Regional Perspective”. Presented at the:
Workshop marking 100 years of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 “The Social Impact of Epidemics”, Oslo, Norway, September 2018
“Heterogeneity in the effect of obesity on future long-term care use in England.”. Presented at the:
iHEA World Congress on Health Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands, July 2018
“Does Past Unemployment Experience Explain the Transition Happiness Gap?”. Presented at the:
Association for Comparative Economics Studies session at the Allied Social Science Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, USA, January 2018
International Conference “People Matter: Quality of Life and Population Wellbeing in Post-Transition Economies”, Kyiv, Ukraine, September 2017
“BMI, Physical Activity and Future Care Needs”. Presented at the:
Invited Seminar, Academic Unit of Health Economics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, September 2015
International Long-term care Policy Network (ILPN) Conference, London School of Economics, London, UK, September 2016
“Inequality in Total Returns to Work in Ukraine: Taking a Closer Look at Workplace (Dis)amenities”. Presented at the:
8th ECINEQ Meeting Society for the Study of Economics Inequality, Paris, July 2019.
ERSTE Foundation Social Research Conference, Torino, Italy, September 2013
Invited Seminar, International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland, October 2014
“Long-run Effects of Severe Economic Recessions: Drastic Changes in Working Hours and Male BMI Trajectories”. Presented at the
IHEA 9th World Congress on Health Economics, Sydney, Australia, July 2013
ILPN The International Conference on Evidence-based Policy in Long-term Care, London, UK, September 2014
“Social Assistance System Modernization and Participation of the Poor”. Presented at the
Global Development Network Annual Conference, Manila, Philippines, June 2013
4th Lindau Nobel Prize Laureates Meeting on Economics Sciences. Lindau, Germany, August 2011
“Evaluation of the Social Assistance System Modernization Project in Ukraine”. Presented at the
GIZ Conference of Systemic Policy Evaluation, Frankfurt, Germany, January 2010
“Evaluation of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine”. Presented at the
IHEA 7th World Congress on Health Economics, Beijing, China, July 2009
Invited presentation at the workshop organized by the Ministry of Health of Thailand and the Global Development Network, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2009
Population Association of America 2009 Annual Meeting, Detroit, USA, April 2009
Invited Seminar, University of Houston, Houston, USA, April 2009
European Workshop on Health, Mortality and Morbidity: The State of the Art. Vienna, Austria, September 2011
“Effect of Wages on Informal Care Supply: Do Long Term Care Policies Matter?” Presented at the
IZA Long Term Care Workshop, Bonn, Germany, September 2007
ESF-LiU Conference "Transfer of Resources Across Generations", Vadstena, Sweden, June 2008
Invited Seminar, BICEPS, Riga, Latvia, October 2008
SHARE User Conference, Mainz, Germany, October 2009
iHEA 10th World Congress on Health Economics, Dublin, Ireland, July 2014
“The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply”. Presented at the
80th Annual Meeting of the Western Economic International Association, San Francisco, USA, July 2005
Viva50Plus World Ageing and Generations Congress, St. Gallen, Switzerland, September 2005.
"Economic and Social Consequences of Maternity Protection." (finalist paper in the Global Development Award in the Gender and Development section). Presented at Second Global Development Conference “Beyond Economics: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Development”, Tokyo, Japan, December 2000
Blogs and Policy Briefs
2018
July
“Public Health: Meeting the Challenge of Evidence-informed Policy in Ukraine” (with David Hunter and Erica Gadsby) - https://voxukraine.org/en/public-health-meeting-the-challenge-of-evidence-informed-policy-in-ukraine/
2017
June
“Youth Unemployment: Small Matter or Verdict?” (with Olga Nikolaieva, Anna Kvit and Ilona Solohub) https://voxukraine.org/2017/06/18/youth-unemployment-small-matter-or-verdict/
2016
August
“Mortality in Ukraine Over the Last 25 years: How Many Deaths Could Have Been Avoided” - https://voxukraine.org/en/mortality-in-ukraine-en/
2016
February
“Ukrainian Youth is More Likely to Get the Job Than European…But This Job is Less Rewarding” (with Nataliia Shapoval) - https://voxukraine.org/en/ukrainian-youth-is-more-likely-to-get-the-job-than-european-en/
2016
May
“The NHS agency staff spending cap: Cutting the Branch on Which It Sits?” (with Florin Vadean) - http://www.pssru.ac.uk/blogs/blog/the-nhs-agency-staff-spending-cap-cutting-the-branch-on-which-it-sits/
2015
December
“The clampdown on NHS agency staff spending; addressing symptoms instead of causes?” (with Florin Vadean) - http://www.pssru.ac.uk/blogs/blog/the-clampdown-on-nhs-agency-staff-spending-addressing-symptoms-instead-of-causes/
2015
December
“Unintended Consequences of Crimean Energy Blockade” – https://voxukraine.org/en/unintended-consequences-of-crimean-energy-blockade-en/
2015
May
“An Ounce of Prevention is Worth More than a Million Pounds of Cure” (with Nataliia Shapoval) – http://voxukraine.org/2015/05/29/an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-more-than-a-million-pounds-of-cure/
2015
January
“Dismantling Current Healthcare System: A Thoughtless Way Of Balancing The Budget Or A True Attempt to Improve Population Health” (with Nataliia Shapoval) – http://voxukraine.org/2015/01/30/dismantling-universal-healthcare-system-a-thoughtless-way-of-balancing-the-budget-or-a-true-attempt-to-improve-population-health/
2014
December
“Growing Inequalities in Workplace Amenities” (with Nataliia Shapoval) – http://freepolicybriefs.org/2014/12/08/growing-inequalities-in-workplace-amenities/
2014
December
“Putting Population Health in Focus of Priority Reforms” (with Nataliia Shapoval) – http://voxukraine.org/2014/12/12/putting-population-health-in-focus-of-priority-reforms/
2012
March
“The Effect of Municipal Strategic Planning on Urban Growth in Ukraine” (with Denys Nizalov) – http://freepolicybriefs.org/2012/03/26/the-effect-of-municipal-strategic-planning-on-urban-growth-in-ukraine/
2012
January
“Can the Baby- and Woman-Friendly Maternity Wards Save Lives?” – http://freepolicybriefs.org/2012/01/30/can-the-baby-and-woman-friendly-maternity-wards-save-lives/
Interviews
January 2014
BBC interview on political crisis and social change in Ukraine
January 2015
BBC documentary on the economic consequences of demographic crisis in Ukraine
Volunteering
2017 – present
Simon Langton Girls Grammar School Board of Governors
Governor
2014 – present
Idea/Co-founder/Trustee
NGO “Kraplynka” Board of Trustees (educational opportunities and rehabilitation services for children of internally displaced persons.
2015 – 2019
Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys Board of Governors
Governor
December 2013
Idea/Co-founder
Author of the idea and co-founder of the Open University of Maidan (Відкритий університет Майдану (ВУМ))