Olha Faryma

The BeeHealthy mobile application developed by the Bern University of Applied Sciences (School of Health Professions) together with the Swiss Lung League aims to support Ukrainian refugees aged 11 to 15 with their physical and mental health. Nutrition (EAT), managing stress (BREATHE) and exercise (MOVE) are addressed in a gamified way.

Subjects

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

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

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.

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