Research projects and Publications
Ongoing Research Projects:
Lifetime prevalence of traumatic brain injuries in selected high-risk populations in Slovakia
Grant from the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV) (APVV-24-0110)
Project duration: 2025-2029
Principal Investigator: Dominika Plančíková, PhD, MPH
Pilot Project for Improving Access to Testing for Sexually and Blood Transmitted Infections in General Practitioner Clinics.
Grant from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Project Duration: 2024
Principal Investigator: Prof. MUDr. Alexandra Bražinová, PhD., MPH.
Analysis of psychoneuroimmunological health parameters in selected groups of the Slovak population.
Grant from the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV) (APVV-22-0160).
Project Duration: 2023-2027
Principal Investigator: Prof. MUDr. Alexandra Bražinová, PhD., MPH.
Direct detection and subtyping of legionella from clinical samples - a basis for epidemiological investigation and prevention.
Grant from the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (VEGA) (1/0761/22).
Project Duration: 2022-2025
Principal Investigator: Prof. MUDr. Alexandra Bražinová, PhD., MPH.
Impact of psychological intervention on the immunological profile of patients in long-term remission after curative treatment of breast cancer and genetic aspects of taxane neuropathy.
VEGA Grant.
Project Duration: 2022-2024
Principal Investigators: Prof. MUDr. Beáta Mladosievičová, CSc. and MUDr. Mária Rečková, PhD.
Research Projects Completed within past 5 Years:
Prevalence of selected sexually and blood-transmitted infections in migrant communities in Slovakia, with a special focus on the group of refugees from Ukraine.
Grant from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Project Duration: 2023
Principal Investigator: Prof. MUDr. Alexandra Bražinová, PhD., MPH.
Development of the Center for research and prevention of falls.
Promega Grant
Project Duration: 2021-2024
Principal Investigator: Prof. MUDr. Peter Valkovič, PhD.
Seroepidemiological study on the presence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in selected regions of Slovakia.
Grant from the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic (COVIMEP).
Project Duration: 2021
Principal Investigator: Prof. MUDr. Alexandra Bražinová, PhD., MPH.
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of the population of the Slovak Republic.
Grant from the Comenius University in Bratislava (GUK 389/2021)
Project Duration: 2021
Principal Investigator: Mgr. Veronika Sivčová
Evaluating the dynamics of Covid-19 transmission in the Slovak Republic using key epidemiologic measures to inform decision makers about the effective disease control and containment strateg
Grant from the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV) (PP-Covid-20-0102).
Project Duration: 2020-2021
Principal Investigator: Prof. MUDr. Alexandra Bražinová, PhD., MPH.
Epidemiology for practice: Development of new content for practical sessions in the subject of epidemiology in the study program of General Medicine and Dental Medicine, preparation of a textbook in Slovak and English.
KEGA Grant.
Project Duration: 2019-2021
Principal Investigator: Prof. MUDr. Alexandra Bražinová, PhD., MPH.