Epidemiology department is included to the faculty of medical prophylaxis and medical biology.
The department have been organized by famous epidemiologist, professor, I.A.Akhundov in 1943 who has finished Hamburg University and has been professor in this university. Initially, the epidemiology department have been included to the base of the institute of malaria and medical parasitology. During that time the lessons was conducted only for students of the sanitary-hygiene faculty. But now, the epidemiology subject is taughted to the students of the faculties of the cure-prophylaxis, pediatry, medical-prophylaxis, medical biology and stomatology.
These professors have been chief in the epidemiology department:
Professor Ismail Akhundov Abdulkhalig: from 1943 till 1952;
Professor Pyotr Popov Petrovitch: from 1954 till 1964;
Professor Tagi Tagizade : from 1952 till 1954 and from 1964 till 1992
During all the history of epidemiology department , the base of all scientific works which doing the epidemiology department has been the main problems of the Azerbaijan country΄s patology and its medicine .
Now the main scientific problem of the epidemiology department is the learning of the epidemiology of leptospira, salmonella, helmints and non-infection diseases.
In the epidemiology department the epidemiology subject is taughted to the faculties of medical prophylaxis and medical biology, cure-prophylaxis, pediatry and stomatology in Azerbaijan, Russian and English languages .
The department΄s address is Baku city, the street of Mardanov brothers 98 of AZ1078, the 8th floor of the fifth building of the Medical University. The cheif of our department is honoured scientist, honoured teachers, the Doctor of Medicine, professor İ.A.Agayev.