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Baigozhina Zaure Alpanovna, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Dean of the School of Nursing of NJSC "Astana Medical University" since September 2022. In 1993 she graduated from the Akmola State Medical Institute (Akmola) with a degree in General Medicine.

     The total work experience is more than 25 years, in different years she worked in practical healthcare as a doctor, teacher in medical education organizations, the last place of work of the RSE on the REM “National Scientific Center for Health Development named after Salidat Kairbekova” as director of the Department of Medical Education, Science and Personnel Policy in Healthcare.

     In 2010 she defended her thesis and was awarded the degree of candidate of medical sciences (14.00.33 - "Public health and healthcare", 2010). She has extensive experience in reforming nursing in the Republic.

    Since 2010, she has worked as an expert in the implementation of the WB Project together with foreign experts from the Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH), McMaster Canada, LAMK Universities of Applied Sciences, JAMK Finland, University College London (UCL) London on the issues of modernizing the system of medical education, development of nursing in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

    She was the head of the WB National Project "Development of the professional environment of nursing specialists and improvement of the system of retraining of nurses" (2019-2021).

    As part of the working group, she took part in the development (updating) of the Professional Standard in the specialty "Nursing".

    As part of the National Commission (Deputy Chairman), she assessed medical colleges with the aim of reorganizing them into Higher Colleges in accordance with the order of the Minister of Health and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Order №188 dated March 9, 2016) “On the establishment of a commission for the development of a system for training nursing specialists ". According to the results of the assessment, 37 medical colleges were reorganized into Higher Colleges.

   Since 2015 - member of the expert council, independent expert on accreditation of the Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Since 2018 - Member of the Accreditation Council of the Eurasian Center for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Education and Health (ECA), Chairman of the ECA Expert Commission on Nursing Education http://www.ecaqa.org/doxs/bajgozhina-za-predsedatel-ek-po-sestrin -obrazovaniyu-vneshtatnyj.pdf.

      He has a letter of thanks, a diploma of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the owner of the badge of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan "For contribution to healthcare" (2017), a letter of thanks from the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Togzhanov E. in connection with the 30th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan (2021).

    Author of more than 85 scientific articles, abstracts of national and international importance, more than 10 guidelines and 5 guidelines in the field of healthcare and medical education.