Danylo Kyrylovych Zabolotny (; 1866 in Chobotarka, Podolia Governorate – 1929) was a Ukrainian epidemiologist and the founder of the world's first research department of epidemiology. In 1927, he published one of the first texts in his field, Fundamentals of Epidemiology. Zabolotny conducted groundbreaking research on a number of infectious diseases, including cholera, diphtheria, dysentery, plague, syphilis, and typhus, as well as on gangrene. External links https://web.archive.org/web/20051128175106/http://ukrweekly.com/Archive/1996/519609.shtml 1866 births 1929 deaths People from Vinnytsia Oblast People from Olgopolsky Uyezd Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union members Ukrainian epidemiologists Ukrainian biologists Soviet infectious disease physicians Odesa University alumni Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni Academic staff of the Odesa National Medical University Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Presidents of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 3rd class Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 2nd class Soviet bacteriologists