Dear readers,

We are glad to welcome new members of the Editorial Council of the journal Public Health and Life Environment:

– Vasiliy S. Glushanko, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Public Health and Health Care with the course of the Faculty of Advanced Training and Retraining, Vitebsk State Order of Peoples' Friendship Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus, Vitebsk, Republic of Belarus;

– Juri P. Kurhinen, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Visiting Scientist, Research Program in Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, University of Helsinki, Finland; Leading Researcher, Laboratory of Landscape Ecology and Protection of Forest Ecosystems, Forest Institute, Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation;

– Andrei N. Pokida, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Director of the Research Center for Socio-Political Monitoring, Institute of Social Sciences, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russian Federation;

– Liudmila A. Khlyap, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Senior Researcher, Institute of Ecology and Evolution named after A.N. Severtsov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation; and

– Feng-Min Zhang, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Chairman of the Department of Microbiology, Director of the China-Russia Institute of Infection and Immunology, Harbin Medical University; Vice President of Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin, People’s Republic of China