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Institute · founded 2021

Institute of Public Health

The MNUMS Institute of Public Health was founded in 2021 and works through two laboratories and three research centres. They run short and medium-term training in public health, carry out projects, give professional and methodological advice and consulting, lead public outreach and provide laboratory services.

MissionTo develop the research and innovation that shape public health policy.
VisionTo become the leading national research institute.
MottoBuilding a healthy future together.

People

The laboratories and centres are led by researchers of the School of Public Health's departments.

Structure: research centres and laboratories · 6

Alongside the institute: Academic council; Advisory team (interdisciplinary, national and international).

Health Statistics and GIS Research Centreroom 4

Founded in 2003 as the Research Methods Centre of the School of Public Health (from 2009 the Health Research Methods and Training Centre); part of the Institute since 2021. Re-equipped in 2021 with support from Loma Linda University (USA) with Apple MacBook workstations running Stata, SPSS, RStudio and ArcGIS.

Activities
  • Running projects and supporting their methodology
  • Health data management, statistical analysis and GIS analysis
  • Training researchers and giving methodological support
  • National and international conferences and public communication
Health Policy and Management Research Centreroom 5

Founded in 2014 at the School of Public Health; part of the Institute since 2021. It runs short and medium-term health management courses and researches health policy and interventions, information systems, quality and safety of care, hospital management, costs and financing; it advises hospitals on strategy, operational and business plans and performance evaluation, and leads health-policy advocacy.

Activities
  • Qualification and credit courses in health management
  • Evidence for policy making and implementation reviews
  • Management, finance and economics consulting for health organisations
  • Leadership training for managers
  • Training and research with NGOs and the private sector
  • Teaching social research methods to students
Centre for Society, Behaviour and Healthroom 6

Founded in 2012 with Global Fund support as the Social Work Counselling and Information Centre of the School of Public Health; part of the Institute since 2021. It runs projects on health behaviour, social and psychological health, gives advice, leads outreach and teaches ethics, workplace stress and behaviour change.

Activities
  • Commissioned courses on workplace stress, burnout, addictions, stress and conflict management; support and self-help groups
  • Advice on healthy habits, child protection and child- and elderly-friendly settings
  • Outreach on adolescent health, nutrition, violence and bullying prevention
  • Evaluation of social protection and welfare policies
Mongolian Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health

Being set up in an NIH-funded project (2022–2027); it includes the Working Conditions Assessment Sector and the Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Laboratory.

Occupational and Environmental Hygiene Laboratoryroom 1

Founded in 2015 as the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health of the School of Public Health; part of the Institute since 2021. The university's base for occupational and environmental hygiene teaching and research; it measures respirable and total dust at breathing height, silica in dust, microclimate, lighting, noise and vibration to national standards in line with international practice.

Activities
  • Working-conditions assessments and hygiene measurements
  • Occupational health risk assessments
  • Environmental pollution assessments
  • Laboratory tests: total dust, respirable dust, silica in dust
  • Professional training
Accreditation certificate
Accreditation

Accredited by the National Accreditation Centre to MNS ISO/IEC 17025:2018 in 2016, 2019 and 2022.

Test typeObjectParameters
Gravimetric (laboratory)Airborne dust samplesRespirable and total dust
Instrumental (laboratory)Dust samplesQuartz and cristobalite silica
Workplace (on site)Work environmentTemperature, relative humidity, air velocity, lighting, noise
Nutrition and Food Production Laboratoryroom 2

Set up in 2021 with Seoul National University. It serves undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate teaching, research, testing and public programmes; nutrition practicals of six MNUMS programmes take place here.

Activities
  • Training for hospital dietitians, cooks and school and kindergarten catering staff: good practice, food safety, standards
  • Nutrition across life stages: pregnancy and lactation, children and adolescents, older people, sport
  • Clinical and special diets: texture-modified, soft, pureed and liquid foods, energy and nutrient calculation, peri-operative nutrition, dysphagia
  • Menu planning and evaluation: nutritional value, energy, compliance, cost, health risk
  • Food-service hygiene audits: GHP/GMP and HACCP compliance, risk levels
  • Joint projects and training with universities, hospitals and international organisations

Projects and publications (2022–2025)

YearDomestic projectsForeign-funded projectsPapers (intl / national)Talks (intl / national)
2022874 / 164 / 20
202361011 / 1516 / 35
202411512 / 2219 / 50
2025329 / 1110 / 23
Foreign-funded projects · 10
  • Developing the Nutrition and Food Production Laboratory with Seoul National University's College of Human Ecology, 2020–2022
  • Setting up the GIS research centre with Loma Linda University, 2022
  • Clinical trial of smoking-cessation medication and behaviour-change intervention, Pfizer Foundation, 2022
  • BoCo-19: burden of COVID-19 and population health measures in outbreak surveillance, 13 countries, German Ministry of Health, Robert Koch Institute, 2022–2023
  • Dairy consumption, lactose digestion and the microbiome, ERC, 2023
  • Dairy, lactose digestion and microbiome study with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 2019–2024
  • A GIS laboratory for tobacco control, with Loma Linda University, NIH-funded, 2021–2024
  • Training ArcGIS trainers, with Loma Linda University and the School of Public Health, 2023–2024
  • CATINCA: health policy capacity and population health information systems, German Ministry of Education, Robert Koch Institute, 2022–2024; four doctoral sub-projects on the burden and cost of lung cancer, tuberculosis, COVID-19 and diabetes
  • Establishing the Mongolian Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health, NIH, 2022–2027
Domestic projects (2022–2023, in Mongolian) · 22
  • «АПУ Дэйри» ХХК-тай хамтарсан «Сүү, цагаан идээний хэрэглээ ба лактоз шингээх чадвар», 2022
  • Говьсүмбэр аймгийн эрүүл мэндийн анхан шатны тусламж үйлчилгээний нарийвчилсан үнэлгээ, ЭМЯ, ДЭМБ, 2022
  • Анхан шатны тусламж үйлчилгээнд мобайл технологийн хэрэглээг өргөжүүлэх төслийн үр дүнгийн үнэлгээ, ЭМЯ, ДЭМБ, 2022
  • Ерөнхий боловсролын сургуулийн сурагчдын эрүүл мэндийг дэмжих, хамгаалах цогц судалгаа, ЭМДС, 2022
  • ДОХ-ын тусламж үйлчилгээний зарцуулалтын үнэлгээ, Глобаль сан, ЭМЯ, 2022
  • Сүрьеэгийн тусламж үйлчилгээний зарцуулалтын үнэлгээ, Глобаль сан, ЭМЯ, 2022
  • Анхан шатны эмч, ажилтнуудын менежментийн чадавхын сургалтын хэрэгцээ, хөтөлбөр, сургалтын ном, ЭМЯ, ДЭМБ, 2022–2023
  • Эрүүл мэндийн ажилтнуудын нийгмийн баталгааны суурь судалгаа, ЭМЯ, ЭМДС, 2023
  • Анхан шатны тусламж үйлчилгээн дэх хүний нөөцийн тулгамдсан асуудал, ЭМЯ, ЭМДС, 2023
  • Залуучуудын дундах хүчирхийллээс орон нутагт урьдчилан сэргийлэх чадавхыг бэхжүүлэх, Нээлттэй нийгэм хүрээлэн, 2023
  • Төрийн тусгай албан хаагчдын нэгдсэн эмнэлгийн хэрэглэгчдийн судалгаа, 2023
  • Шаргалжуут рашаан сувилал болон АШУҮИС-ийн 4 тэнхимийн хамтарсан «Чихрийн шижин хяналтын багц хөтөлбөр», 2023
  • Барилгын салбарт ажиллагсдын шуугианы өртөлт ба сонсгол бууралт, НДЕГ, 2023
  • Эрүүл мэндийн салбарын хөдөлмөрийн аюулгүй байдал, эрүүл ахуйн эрсдэлийн үнэлгээ, ЭМЯ, 2023
  • Эрүүл мэндийн байгууллагын ажлын байрны хөдөлмөрийн нөхцөлийн үнэлгээний аргачлал, ЭМЯ-ны ХАБЭА мэргэжлийн зөвлөл, ДЭМБ, 2023
  • ХДХВ, тэмбүүгийн тархалтын тандалт судалгаа, ЭМЯ, ХӨСҮТ, Глобаль сан, 2023
  • Өндөр эрсдэлтэй бүлгийн тоо хэмжээг тооцоолох судалгаа, ЭМЯ, ХӨСҮТ, Глобаль сан, 2023
  • КОВИД-19 вакцины (Pfizer-BioNTech) стандарт ба хагас тунгийн нэмэлт тунгийн дараах дархлаа, аюулгүй байдлын эмнэлзүйн судалгаа, Австралийн Мурдокийн их сургууль, ЭМЯ, ХӨСҮТ, 2023
  • Эмнэлгийн ажилтан болон тэргүүн эгнээний ажилтнуудын КОВИД-19 вакцины дархлаа тогтоцын судалгаа, ЭМЯ, ХӨСҮТ, 2023
  • Нийгмийн эрүүл мэндийн тусламж үйлчилгээний хэрэгцээг тодорхойлох судалгаа, АХБ, 2023
  • Хүн амын эрт илрүүлгийн үр ашгийн судалгаа, ЭМЯ, 2023
  • Эрүүл мэндийн салбарын дунд хугацааны хүний нөөцийн төлөвлөлт, ЭМЯ, 2023

Partners

  • USA: Loma Linda, Duke and Texas universities, University of Michigan Center for Global Health, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Pfizer Foundation
  • Germany: Robert Koch Institute
  • Korea: Seoul National University, Government of the Republic of Korea

For public and private organisations it carries out working-conditions and hygiene assessments, measurements and analyses, and offers advice, training and research.

Contact: 7700 8666 · iph@mnums.edu.mn · Facebook ↗ · MNUMS Institute of Public Health, S.Zorig street, Ulaanbaatar

Institute · founded 2023

Institute of Traditional Mongolian Medicine

Opened on 18 September 2023 with four sectors. It studies and safeguards the more than 5,000-year-old knowledge of traditional Mongolian medicine as cultural heritage, develops animal- and plant-based products, new medicines and functional foods, produces foods and drinks in the tradition of Mongolian medicine, and brings new clinical methods and treatment guidelines into practice.

What it does

  • Identifying and collecting traditional texts and manual and instrument therapies, and registering them in the national lists of intangible cultural heritage
  • Translating rare texts from Tibetan, Manchu and Chinese
  • Evidence-based, data- and AI-driven research on individual constitution, brought into clinical practice
  • A digital archive of bloodletting, moxibustion, compresses, massage, acupuncture, vein purging and bone-setting, with guidelines for teaching and care
  • Groundwork for state policy and national programmes based on historical sources
  • Training foreign researchers in source studies, teaching master's and doctoral students and promoting traditional medicine worldwide

Sectors · 3

Food and Beverage Research Sector
Activities
  • Prevention and healthy lifestyles suited to the Mongolian constitution
  • Functional foods for longer life
  • Bioactive food-like products based on biotechnology
  • Foods and drinks in the tradition of Mongolian medicine

Probiotic health drinks, functional bakery products, wind-calming preparations and therapeutic diets for the three humours

Innovation and Formulation Research Sector
Activities
  • Evidence-based study of traditional compound formulas, combining traditional and Western medicine
  • Studying compound formulas with modern methods and equipment
  • Introducing leading research technologies
  • Start-ups and an incubator for new technologies
  • Joint projects with foreign universities and research bodies; investment for technology transfer
  • Research and production of new traditional medicines and preparations
Clinical Research Sector
Activities
  • Integrative medicine
  • Acupuncture
  • Traditional therapies
  • Constitution studies

Clinical guidelines in preparation: traditional pain relief, insomnia, injuries and metabolic syndrome

Signature clinical services

  1. Advanced case analysis and clinical research in traditional medicine
  2. Nutrition in traditional medicine: a standard for clinical use
  3. Advanced acupuncture for pain
  4. Geriatric care in traditional medicine
  5. Traditional palliative care
  6. Anti-ageing acupuncture
  7. Sports and everyday injuries (Japanese traditional judo therapy)
  8. International-standard clinical courses in English and more foreign trainee doctors
Institute · founded 2022

Institute of Biomedical Sciences

Biomedicine spans medicine, biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, agriculture, biotechnology, physics, electronics and informatics, and produces innovations with a direct effect on health systems and personal health. After a MNT 120 million renovation under the education ministry's laboratory programme, the institute was built on the university's core and other laboratories and opened on 25 November 2022.

People

  • 3Professors
  • 4Associate professors
  • 5Doctors (PhD)
  • 9Master's
  • 12Doctoral students
  • 11Master's students
  • 26Bachelor's

Specialist physicians, biomedical scientists, chemists, biotechnologists and veterinarians with research experience (institute data, 2024).

Laboratories and centre · 7

Molecular Biology Laboratory
Research lines
  • Human genome
  • Population genetics
  • Sequencing
  • Epigenetics
  • Communicable and non-communicable diseases
Capabilities
  • Nucleic acid extraction, purification, amplification, detection and quantification
  • Gene expression and genomics
  • Plasmid constructs, transformation, recombinant molecules
  • Gel electrophoresis of nucleic acids and proteins, bacterial genome mapping
  • Protein separation and detection (Western blot)
  • Sequencing
Projects
  • БШУЯ, ШУТС «Олон хүчин зүйлийн шалтгаант удамшимтгай зарим эмгэгийн геномын судалгаа» (удирдагч Ж.Сарантуяа)
  • ЭМЯ-ны захиалгат «SARS-CoV-2 омогт БХ-ПГУ аргаар өвөрмөц мутаци илрүүлэх, дараалал тогтоох шинэ технологи нэвтрүүлэх» (удирдагч Ч.Баттогтох)
  • БШУЯ-ны захиалгат «Шүд цоорлын эсрэг нян орлуулах болон пробиотик шинэ бүтээгдэхүүн гарган авах» (удирдагч Ч.Баттогтох)
Biochemistry Laboratory
Research lines
  • Technology for bioactive products
  • Chemical composition of genetic material
  • Food safety and quality control
Capabilities
  • Bioactive small molecules, lipids, proteins, amino acids and carbohydrates by HPLC, mass spectrometry and spectrophotometry
  • Quantification of drug substances
  • Antioxidant activity
  • Total phenolics and flavonoids
  • Qualitative and quantitative food analysis
Projects
  • ЭМЯ-ны захиалгат, БШУЯ ба МАУОУС-тай хамтарсан «Өвсөн гурван халуун тангийн ходоод, улаан хоолойн хавдрын эсрэг нөлөө»
  • Монос группын захиалгат «Нарийн навчит цахилдаг ургамлын фитохими болон хорт хавдрын эсрэг идэвхийн судалгаа»
Cell Biology Laboratory
Research lines
  • Stem cells, cell and tissue culture
  • Action of drugs and traditional medicines
  • Preclinical studies
  • Live-cell imaging
Capabilities
  • Primary cultures and cell lines
  • Cell cryopreservation; tissue culture
  • Detecting changes in cells and tissues
  • Live-cell imaging, immunofluorescence microscopy
Projects
  • БШУЯ-ны захиалгат, ШУТС ба ОХУ-ын судалгааны сантай хамтарсан «Эсийн ургамлаас биологийн идэвхтэй фракц ялган авч, in vitro орчинд судлах иж бүрэн аргачлал» (удирдагч С.Цогтсайхан)
  • ШУТС-ийн суурь судалгаа «ОХ40 агонистыг хавдрын хэсгийн дархлаа эмчилгээнд хэрэглэх нь» (удирдагч Ч.Гансүх)
  • ШУТДС-ийн ахисан түвшний төсөл «Яс устгагч эсийн дохио дамжилтад Алтан гагнуурын (Rhodiola rosea) салидрозидын нөлөө» (удирдагч О.Эрдэнэзаяа)
Immunobiology Laboratory
Research lines
  • Cancer immunotherapy
  • Liquid biopsy
  • Autoimmune diagnostics
Capabilities
  • MACSQuant10 cell analyser
  • Indirect immunofluorescence
  • Plasmid assembly
Projects
  • ШУТС «Урсгал эс тоолуурын аргаар олон төрлийн цитокиныг зэрэг тодорхойлох технологийг эмнэлзүйн практикт нэвтрүүлэх нь» (удирдагч Т.Хонгорзул)
  • ШУТДС-ийн инновацын төсөл «Аутоиммун эмгэгийн оношлогооны ФХЭБУ-ын оношлуур үйлдвэрлэх» (удирдагч Т.Хонгорзул)
  • ШУТС «Харшлын эмчилгээнд CpG ДНХ ашиглах нь» (удирдагч Л.Энхсайхан)
  • ЭМЯ-ны захиалгат «Монгол Улсад тохиолдож буй тархины анхдагч хавдрын дархлаа оношлогоо, хяналт» (удирдагч Л.Энхсайхан)
Neuroscience Laboratory
Aims
  • Conditions for basic and clinical neuroscience research
  • Training researchers in new methods
  • Joint research with Mongolian and foreign scientists
Research lines
  • Neuronal function and intracellular signalling
  • Central regulation of physiology, feeding and stress
  • Sleep research and sleep EEG
Capabilities
  • Neurophysiology unit: stereotaxic surgery in mice and rats, behaviour, feeding and metabolism
  • Psychosomatic medicine unit: EEG, electrophysiology, colour Doppler ultrasound of vessels
Pathology Laboratory
Research lines
  • Supporting the research environment of faculty and researchers
  • Science, technology and innovation planning
  • Advanced methods and laboratory capacity
  • Open, shared, interdisciplinary work and advisory services
Capabilities
  • Formalin fixation, paraffin embedding and sectioning of human and animal tissue
  • H&E, special stains, histochemistry, immunohistochemistry
Laboratory Animal Centre
Research lines
  • An SPF-grade laboratory animal platform
  • Animal-based interdisciplinary research and training
  • A base for transgenic work
  • More species and technical documentation
Capabilities
  • Breeding in HEPA-filtered IVC cages with standard diet and bedding
  • Methodological advice and collaboration
  • Disease models
  • Technical documents and textbooks
  • In vivo and in vitro studies with other laboratories

Projects and funding (2019–2025)

Ministry of Health commissioned projects · 3
ProjectYearsFunding
SARS-CoV-2 омогт БХ-ПГУ аргаар өвөрмөц мутаци илрүүлэх, дараалал тогтоох шинэ технологи нэвтрүүлэх2021–2022243,766,500₮
Монгол Улсад SARS-CoV-2-ын голомтолсон халдварын геномын судалгаа2020188,000,000₮
Монгол Улсад тохиолдож буй тархины анхдагч хавдрын дархлаа оношлогоо, хяналт (Л.Энхсайхан)2020–2022110 сая ₮
Health Promotion Fund · 1
ProjectYearsFunding
БШУЯ ба МАУОУС-тай хамтарсан «Өвсөн гурван халуун тангийн ходоод, улаан хоолойн хавдрын эсрэг нөлөө»2020–202245 сая ₮
Basic research (Ministry of Education and Science) · 7
ProjectYearsFunding
Эфирийн тосны үйлчлэлийг тархины зарим төвүүдэд тодорхойлох нь2022–202450 сая ₮
Нөхөн үржихүйн бус эрхтний хавдрын дараах өндгөвчний үйл ажиллагааны алдагдлыг эсийн эмчилгээгээр сэргээх2022–202450 сая ₮
Цус/төрөл ойртсон гэр бүлийн өвчлөлийн байдлыг тодорхойлох судалгаа2022–202349.7 сая ₮
Шүд цоорлын эсрэг нян орлуулах болон пробиотик шинэ бүтээгдэхүүн гарган авах2021–202286 сая ₮
ОХ40 агонистыг хавдрын хэсгийн дархлаа эмчилгээнд хэрэглэх нь (Ч.Гансүх)2019–202240 сая ₮
Харшлын эмчилгээнд CpG ДНХ ашиглах нь (Л.Энхсайхан)2020–202345 сая ₮
Урсгал эс тоолуурын аргаар олон төрлийн цитокиныг зэрэг тодорхойлох технологийг эмнэлзүйд нэвтрүүлэх (Т.Хонгорзул)2022–202440 сая ₮
MNUMS research fund · 6
ProjectYearsFunding
Адууны түүхий эдээс ялгасан коллагений төрөл, цэвэршилт, биологийн идэвхийг тодорхойлох2023–202445 сая ₮
Уушгины үрэвсэлд эмийн ургамлын хандны үзүүлэх нөлөө2023–202445 сая ₮
Эдийн бичил шинжилгээний цомог (tissue microarray), иммуногистохимийн будгийн аргыг нэвтрүүлэх2022–202335 сая ₮
Гемофилийн генийн эмчилгээний эмнэлзүйн урьдчилсан судалгаа – биобанк байгуулах2023–202469.9 сая ₮
Цус/төрөл ойртсон гэр бүлийн өвчлөлийг илрүүлэх эмнэлзүйн урьдчилсан судалгаа2022–202370 сая ₮
Цус/төрөл ойртсон гэр бүлд SBNO1 генийн дараалал тогтоож, оюуны хомсдолын хамаарлыг илрүүлэх2023–202468.3 сая ₮
International joint projects · 4
ProjectYearsFunding
МУИС-ийн ХШУИС, Киотогийн их сургуулийн Амь ухааны их сургуультай хамтарсан «Эхийн сүү болон нярайн өтгөнд агуулагдах олигосахаридын судалгаа»2023–2025—
Элэг өөхлөлтөд митохондрийн кальцийн суваг хориглогчийн үзүүлэх нөлөө, механизм2023–2025109,500,000₮
Өнчин тархины аденомын эмгэг судлалын онцлог, хавдрын үүдэл эсийн дохио дамжилт, наалдуулагч молекулын илрэл2023–202547,760 USD
ШУТС ба ОХУ-ын судалгааны сантай хамтарсан «Эсийн ургамлаас биологийн идэвхтэй фракц ялган авч, in vitro орчинд судлах аргачлал» (С.Цогтсайхан)2021–202454 сая ₮

Partners

  • Partner countries: USA, the Netherlands, Italy, Russia, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia
Please consult the Academic Affairs Office for official information on programmes and timelines. info@mnums.edu.mn