Olena is a predoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona. She has a Master’s degree in Public Health (Stockholm University, Sweden) and a Master’s degree in Organizational Management in the Healthcare Sector (Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine).

Since 2016, Olena has been working in the Tobacco Control Unit, initially as a scientific manager of international collaborative research projects and since 2020 as a predoctoral researcher. Her predoctoral research supervised by Prof. Fernández and Dr. Martínez aims to characterize the prevalence and determinants of smoking and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in private environments (homes and cars), as well as to adapt and conduct a pilot study of an intervention that aims to support families with children to create smoke-free homes.

Within tobacco control, her main research interests include, among others, smoking and prevention of passive exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, exposure to aerosols produced by electronic cigarettes and novel tobacco products, and interventions to create smoke-free environments. Beyond the area of ​​tobacco control, she is interested in health promotion, health inequalities, sexuality education, implementation science, and behavior change.

Olena has previous experience in public health research and epidemiology (School of Public Health and AIDS Alliance, Kiev), health inequalities (Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm and the Center for Research on Health and Economics, Barcelona) and care coordination (Research in Healthcare Innovation Management, CRHIM, Barcelona). She has previous experience in international project coordination (FP7, H2020) and has led research activities of the CRHIM and the Tobacco Control Unit in several projects funded by the European Commission.