Valentin Ivanovich Pokrovsky (russian: Валентин Иванович Покровский; 1 April 1929 – 29 October 2020) was a Russian medical scientist, epidemiologist and infectionist.

Career

President of the

Russian Academy of Medical Sciences The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (russian: Акаде́мия медици́нских нау́к СССР) was the highest scientific and medical organization founded in the Soviet Union founded in 1944. Its successor is the Russian Academy of ...

from 1987 to 2006, Academician of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

(since 2013),Russian Academy of Sciences
(in Russian) Director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology under the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Professor at the

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University First Moscow State Medical University (MSMU, officially I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, informally Moscow Medical Academy or Sechenov University; russian: Первый Московский государственный � ...

, Doctor of Medical Sciences (Dsc). He was born in

RSFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

, and graduated from the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Since 1971 Director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology under the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation. From 1997 to 2008, Pokrovsky headed the Department of Еpidemiology and Evidence-based medicine at his alma-mater. Academician of the

since 2013, Academician of the

since 1982, Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences since 1971. He was Foreign Member of the

National Academy of Sciences of Belarus The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) ( be, Нацыянальная акадэмія навук Беларусі, russian: Национальная академия наук Беларуси, НАН Беларуси, НАНБ) is ...

. Pokrovsky died on 29 October 2020. He was awarded: *

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration b ...

(1986) *

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...

(1971)

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Russian medical volunteers under the First MSMU aegis
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pokrovsky, Valentin 2020 deaths 1929 births Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Academicians of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Foreign Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Recipients of the Order of Lenin Presidents of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences