Zoreslava A. Shkiriak-Nyzhnyk, MD, Dr. Sc., Full Professor of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology of NMAPE, Head of the Department of Medical and Psychosocial Problems of Family Health of the SI "Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology of NAMS of Ukraine".

Since 1996 till now she has been the Ukrainian representative in the Council of Europe Committee on Bioethics; in 2004 was elected a member of the Bureau of the Council of Europe Committee on Bioethics. Since 2001 has been Deputy Head of the Committee on Bioethics at the Presidium of the NAMS of Ukraine. In 2007 was elected a member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Board member of several professional world, European and national associations. Expert of the National Expert Commission on the Protection of Public Morality at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

Awarded the medal "For Labor Valor", "Distinguished Labor Service"; gratitude and letters of commendation from the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, gratitude from Kyiv City State Administration. In 2003 received the gratitude from the President of Ukraine "For Honest Labor and Outstanding Personal Contribution to the Strengthening and Development of the Ukrainian State".

Was included to the Encyclopedia of Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century (vol. 26), published by the International Biographical Center (Cambridge, England).

Since 1992 she has been the scientific advisor of the comprehensive investigation “Family and Children of Ukraine”, which is performed as the Ukrainian piece of the European Longitudinal Study of Parenthood and Childhood. The study has been performing in the several countries of Europe (Great Britain, Isle of Man, Czechia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Russia) in the cooperation with University of Illinois at Chicago (the USA) and Bristol University (Great Britain)

Author of about 350 scientific works, including 9 monographs and manuals.

Area of Expertise: performing multicentral epidemiological studies concerning the state of women's and child health, determining the role and effect of social, economic, cultural, ecological and psychological factors on the health of a woman, infant, child, adolescent.