The paper presents long-term experience of interaction between practitioners of the State Sanitary and
Epidemiological Service (until 2005) and Rospotrebnadzor (since 2005), the institutions of science for
Rospotrebnadzor, Ural State Medical University in preparing graduates of a medical-preventive profile,
starting from pre-university work with schoolchildren to the introduction of modern technologies of
practice-oriented training of students, specialists post-graduate training of the State Sanitary and
Epidemiological Service and Rospotrebnadzor.