The paper deals with the anniversary of the Department of Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine, F.F. Erisman Institute of Public Health. I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. It presents modern achievements of the Department and the fragments of memoirs of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Valentin Ivanovich Pokrovsky, who headed the department for many years.

Keywords: Professor Valentin Ivanovich Pokrovsky, Department of Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine