At the Department of Physical Education and Health, together with the Department of Physiology, the NDR “Peculiarities of intersystemic cardiorespiratory integration in young people with different types of autonomic regulation” is being carried out. The purpose of the study is to clarify the regularity of the influence of the vago-sympathetic ratio on the effectiveness of the cardiorespiratory interaction, which will be the basis for the development of new algorithms for diagnosing the functional state of the body and predicting the development of maladaptation disorders; improvement of the results of pre-hospital diagnosis of the state of health and primary prevention of the development of diseases, which will increase the quality of human life; reduction of financial costs due to the prevention of the development of autonomic regulation disorders or their early diagnosis.

In recent years, scientific and practical conferences on the basis of the department: “Physical activity and quality of human life” (annually, I–IV), All-Ukrainian scientific and practical conference with international participation “Modern achievements of physical education” (I–II), “Physical education, sports and human health”; First round of the All-Ukrainian Olympiad in physical education have been held.

In 2023, the staff of the department published 54 scientific works (in the journals of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the SCOPUS database, collections of scientific works, collections of conference materials).

The staff of the department actively cooperates with institutions of higher education: National Law University named after Yaroslav Mudriy, National Aerospace University named after M.E. Zhukovsky “Kharkiv Aviation Institute”, Kharkiv National University of Economics named after S. Kuznets, Kharkiv National Pedagogical University named after H.S. Skovoroda, Kharkiv State Academy of Physical Culture, Kharkiv Humanitarian and Pedagogical Academy.