Viktoriia Gorbunova

Born in Ukraine and educated in various national and international institutions, Viktoriia Gorbunova has dedicated her life to working in mental health and psychological education. Since 2005, Viktoriia has worked in Ukrainian academia, progressing to professor, head of the Clinical Psychology department and Leader of the MSc Program (2015). Starting from 2021, she leads the EuroPsy National Awarding Committee, which brought to Ukraine the EU system of qualification standards for psychologists. Among research initiatives, the most fruitful are exploring the psychological consequences of the Holodomor (2020), the largest man-made famine in Ukraine’s history that killed around 5 million people; leading the National Psychological Association research team that revealed culturally conditioned ways of mental health perception (2021), health care and problem-solving (2021), and conducted the first epidemiological mental health study among Romani in Ukraine; co-managing the project for the Ukrainian Public Health Centre (2021-2023) on psychological interventions (CBT, Brief intervention, Problem management plus, Self-Help Plus) to reduce alcohol consumption and improve the mental health of MAT Program participants with presiding epidemiology study. Her current work is focused on further developing and researching the efficacy of Universal Mental Health Training (UMHT) in the position of Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Luxembourg.