Mgr. Ekaterina Volevach

Curriculum vitae

Department/Faculty/University

• First Department of Neurology - Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital - Faculty of Medicine

Function, current position

• Ph.D. student

Education and academic qualifications

• Masaryk University Brno, Czechia; Ph.D., Neuroscience 02.2022 – 01.2025; Dissertation: Development and implementation of a program to increase stroke health literacy in the Czech Republic; Advisor: prof. MUDr. Robert Mikulík, Ph.D.
• Masaryk University Brno, Czechia; M.S., Sociology 09.2019 – 01.2022; Thesis: Consequences of lifelong singlehood on health in later life in Europe; Advisor: prof. Martin Kreidl, Ph.D.
• Masaryk University Brno, Czechia; B.S., Sociology 09.2016 – 06.2019; List honors: The Czech Demographic Society awarded 2nd place for the best qualifying thesis in demography

Professional experience

• 2023-2023: External Research Statistician, World Dental Federation
• 2020-: Researcher in Public health and Health Promotion, FNUSA-ICRC
• 2018-2022: External Researcher in Sociology, FSS MU

Research activities

• Developing, implementing, and evaluating behavior change interventions on HOBIT and SASTE ROMA projects (FNUSA-ICRC, Stroke department)

Professional stays abroad

• 2023: one-month stay at Health Promotion Department, the Maastricht University, Netherlands
• 2022: Intervention Mapping Summer course "Designing Theory-based and Evidence-based Programs" at the Maastricht University, Netherlands
• 2022: Summer School in Social Science Measurement: Designs, Models, and Strategies at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
• 2022: Community-based Participatory Methods in Public Health course at SSPH+ Public Health School Lugano, Switzerland

Major publications

• KLÍMA, Ondřej, Martin LAKOMÝ a Ekaterina VOLEVACH. Impacts of cultural factors and mode of administration on item nonresponse for political questions in the European context. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. Abingdon: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2024, roč. 27, č. 4, s. 389-400. ISSN 1364-5579. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2023.2175921. article - open access info
• VOLEVACH, Ekaterina, Hana MARŠÁLKOVÁ, Hana CUKROVÁ a Robert MIKULÍK. Health-related social media advertising is affected by Message Appeals. In World Congress on Public Health. 2023. ISSN 2654-1459. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.18332/popmed/165359. URL info
• VOLEVACH, Ekaterina. Health Status and Self-Perception of Health in Czech Roma Community. In European Journal of Public Health. 2022. ISSN 1101-1262. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac130.176. URL info
• VOLEVACH, Ekaterina, Hana MARSALKOVA, Jan BOBEK, Veronika SVOBODOVA a Robert MIKULÍK. Educational Program Improved Senior Preparedness to Call 911 as a Response to Stroke. JOURNAL OF STROKE & CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2021, roč. 30, č. 11, s. 1-5. ISSN 1052-3057. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2021.106047. URL info
• RUTOVIC, Stela, Ekaterina VOLEVACH, Hana MARSALKOVA, Ana Isabel FUMAGALLI a Francesco COREA. What the Aftermath of the Global Pandemic Will Mean for Neurologists. Neurology International. Switzerland: MDPI, 2021, roč. 2021, č. 13, s. 297-303. ISSN 2035-8377. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/neurolint13030030. URL info

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