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Olha Faryma

Profile

Olha Faryma Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Contact

Links

  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    School of Health Professions
    Fachbereich Ernährung und Diätetik
    Murtenstrasse 10
    3008 Bern

Activities

  • Healthy nutrition for children and adolescents

  • Mindful nutrition

  • Well-being and mental health for children and adolescents

  • Leadership in public health

  • Communications in public health

  • Educational projects for students and teachers

  • Health education for refugees (Ukraine and other countries)

  • Mobile applications and other digital instruments for health and well-being

Teaching

  • Lectures, seminars, workshops on health and well-being for refugee kids, adolescents and their families

  • Online programs on healthy and mindful nutrition for schoolteachers in Ukraine

Research

  • Kids' and adolescents' health and well-being

  • Digital interventions and mHealth applications

  • Well-being and mental health of children and adolescents

  • Health education for students and teachers

  • Health interventions for refugees

  • Public health, leadership, communications

  • Evaluating the BeeHealthy wellbeing mobile application developed for primary school children in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland

CV

  • Olha Faryma is a communications expert and the creator of educational health and well-being programs for children and adolescents. Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, Olha relocated to Bern, Switzerland, with her two daughters in March 2022 after leaving her home country due to the war. Her work combines her expertise in communication with her passion for promoting health education among young people.
  • At the moment Olha works as a research associate at the Department of Health at BFH, where she is currently developing the first Swiss-Ukrainian mobile app for kids and adolescents BeeHealthy to manage their health and well-being.
  • Before that she headed the NGO "BeHealthy" (Ukraine) since the moment of its creation in 2017.
    25 000 kids in 13 regions of Ukraine took part in the healthy nutrition educational programs.
    Project was awarded as one of the TOP-6 social changing projects in Ukraine by UNICEF.
    The first free Ukrainian online-course for adults on healthy nutrition "4 Steps to Healthy Eating" was created together with Prometheus, the biggest Ukrainian MOOC Platform.
    60 000 students registered (as of 2022), 94% of grads evaluated the course as useful & very useful.
  • 2022 – currently Research Associate School of Health Professions, Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • 2020 – 2022 Communications consultant, Mental Health World Health Organization Ukraine
  • 2017 – 2022 Author & leader of the educational project Healthy Nutrition for Kids NGO BeHealthy!
  • 2017 – 2018 Initiator & co-author of the first free Ukrainian online-course for adults on healthy nutrition 4 Steps to Healthy Eating Prometheus MOOC Platform
  • 2013 – 2017 Deputy Director Garland Communications Agency
  • 2000 – 2013 Marketing specialist, Deputy Head of Marketing, Chief Marketing officer Ukrainian and international companies
  • 2024 – 2027 (in progress) Master of Science in Life Sciences – Food, Nutrition and Health Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
  • 2020 – 2021 Fundamentals of Public Health School of Public Health of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
  • 1996 – 2001 Master’s Degree in Marketing Management Kyiv National University of Economics, Ukraine
  • 2022: Public Health Leadership for Global Health and Wellbeing 2022, SSPH+ Lugano Summer School in Public Health Policy.
  • 2022: Strategic Project Management, SSPH+ Lugano Summer School in Public Health Policy.
  • 2019: Social Impact Strategy: Tools for Entrepreneurs and Innovators, Penn, University of Pennsylvania.
  • 2018: Child Nutrition and Cooking, Stanford University.
  • 2017: The Science of Nutrition, The Open University.

Awards

Healthy Nutrition for Kids Project – was awarded as one of the TOP-6 social changing projects in Ukraine by UNICEF at Shkala Forum 2019

Olha Faryma (Iliukhina) ranked among Top-100 Ukrainian professionals in communications by MMR – Marketing Media Review 2011

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • Ukrainian - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • German - Limited working proficiency
  • Polish - Limited working proficiency
  • Ukraine