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Brief history of the department

The Department of Organization and Management of Pharmaceutical Affairs was organized in 1982 and is one of the specialized departments of the Academy.
In the early years of the formation of the Academy for the department of organization and management of pharmaceutical business, scientific personnel were trained through full-time postgraduate study at Moscow Medical Academy. I.M.Shechenova: Arystanov Zh.M. (1985), Zhumabayev N.ZH. (1992), Shertaeva K.D. (1992).

The heads of the departments were:

• • Candidate of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Associate Professor Kalashnikova Raisa Artemovna (1982-1996);

• Doctor of pharmaceutical sciences, professor Makhatov Bauyrzhan Kalzhanovich (1999-2002);

• Candidate of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Associate Professor Zhumabayev Narbek Zhumabayevich (2002-2004);

• Doctor of pharmaceutical sciences, professor Arystanov Zhalgaskali Mergalievich (1996-1999, 2004-2012);

• Doctor of pharmaceutical sciences, professor Shertaeva Klara Dzholbarisovna (2012-2025)

• Since September 2025, the department has been headed by candidate of Pharmaceutical sciences Zhanar Kasymbekovna Shimirova.

Main objectives: the training of specialists with deep theoretical and practical training, strong professional knowledge and skills that meet state educational standards in the specialty "Pharmacy" and the demands of the pharmaceutical labor market.

Basic training courses:

6В-10106 - "Pharmacy" along the trajectory "Pharmacist of General Practice

6В-10106 - "Pharmacy" along the trajectory "Pharmacy Manager"

Since 2010, the department has trained undergraduates in the specialty 7М10142- "Pharmacy in two directions":
• scientific and pedagogical;
• profile.

In the process of learning undergraduates master the following disciplines:

• • Human resources and financial management

• Good distribution practices

• Applied Pharmacoeconomics

• Management and marketing at pharmaceutical enterprises

• Organizational behavior in pharmaceutical enterprises

• Management in pharmaceutical logistics

• Management consulting

In 2018, the doctoral program in the specialty 8D10140- “Pharmacy” was institutionalized.
The faculty of the department has developed a modular curriculum for the specialty 8D10140 - “Pharmacy” (doctorate), which includes the following elective disciplines:

«Medical and Pharmaceutical merchandising»

«Personnel management»

In accordance with the program of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, classes are conducted in three languages (Kazakh, Russian, English) within the framework of "multilingualism" and are conducted in the following disciplines:
In English, classes are conducted:
«Medical and Pharmaceutical merchandising»
«Personnel management»

The following teaching and methodical literature in the state and russian languages was published by the faculty of the department:

• • Pharmaceuticals marketing

• Collection of legislative and regulatory acts regulating pharmaceutical activities in the Republic of Kazakhstan

• Pharmacy Economics

• Communicative skills in pharmacy

• Medical and pharmaceutical merchandising

• Pharmaceutical marketing

• Pharmaceutical Consulting

• Pharmaceutical management

• Basics of pharmacoeconomics

• Personnel management

• Pharmaceutical logistics

• Pharmaceutical marketing and management

Work programs are developed and regularly updated according to the SGES and model program, the catalog of elective disciplines at the undergraduate and graduate levels is reviewed annually. Annually, additions and changes are made to the disciplines. Literary support of the disciplines taught by the department is regularly updated.

The department are made two initiative scientific and technical programs:
• Theoretical, scientific and applied research of marketing management in the system of drug supply at the regional level.
• Scientific and methodological substantiation of the provision of pharmaceutical assistance in emergency situations in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Directions of researches department of OandMPhB
Theoretical, and scientific researches in the field drug circulation and pharmaceutical education
• development of theoretical - applied approaches for the implementation effective mechanisms of public administration and regulation pharmaceutical activities in accordance with international standards and requirements and features of the development domestic pharmaceutical industry;
• studing of the problems regulatory and legal regulation of pharmaceutical activities, the circulation of medicines (drugs), medical products and para-pharmaceutical products in the domestic pharmaceutical market
• researingof the problems and prospects for the development pharmaceutical education sector for improving the domestic pharmaceutical industry in accordance with the international requirements of the Bologna Declaration and the specifics of the domestic pharmaceutical market;
• • substantiation of effective pharmaeconomic mechanisms (pricing, insurance, crediting, taxation, investment) regulating the organization of pharmaceutical care (services) provided to the population in conditions of limited health resources and in terms of introducing the social model of compulsory health insurance in the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• development of scientific approaches to the implementation of effective pricing mechanisms and reimbursement (compensation) of the cost consumed drugs and medical devices in the context of reforming the national health care system and pharmacy in the direction of introducing the social model of CHI;
• studing of modern social and psychological principles in the organization of pharmaceutical activity in the conditions of development of the domestic market of drugs and medical devices;
• scientific substantiation of the strategy for the development of public associations in domestic pharmacy and directions for the development of the social movement in the pharmaceutical community;
• theoretical and applied research of marketing management in the system of drug provision of the population.