From 1997 to 2001, she was engaged in postgraduate studies at Lviv State Institute of Information Infrastructure, where she later worked as a research fellow from 2000 to 2002 while being dealing with mathematical modeling of environmental issues.

In January–September 2002, as a scholarship holder from the Government of Austria and Government of Sweden, she trained at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Vienne, Austria), worked on her dissertation titled “Mathematical Modeling of the Carbon Cycle” to finish her academic research under the same topic in June–August 2004, as a scholarship holder from UNESCO / Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowships Programme at the Technical Institute (Bielsko-Biala, Poland).

In 2005, she started working as a PR Manager at the office of the Charitable Organization For Every Child and EU Project “Development of Integrated Social Services”.

[12] In 2014, Skipalska launched yet another direction of mental care for ATO/UFO veterans, former prisoners of war and their family members under the “Human Rights Clinic” Project.

HealthRight in Ukraine launched a social initiative under a project of multisectoral support for IDPs and those affected by the war – a network of children centers known as “BigLittle” for internally displaced families in Vinnytsia, Zakarpattia and Lviv Oblasts;[13] launched the Project “Response and Care Units (RCUs): Integrating Essential GBV Survivor Care in Eastern and Southern Ukraine” (Brave&Safe),[14] etc.

The projects implemented by the Foundation include the HealthRight Service Center for Girls and Young Women in Difficult Life Circumstances established in Kyiv to provide comprehensive social and psychological services, including outreach services, HIV and other serious disease testing in teenagers and women from risk groups, which specifically includes women in conflict with law (jointly with the Kyiv City Center of Social Services for Family, Children and Youth, 2010); projects on prevention on violence against girls and children involving 49 mobile social and psychological aid units, 9 shelters for female victims of violence and 4 day care centers (jointly with the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, funded by UNFPA since 2012); social apartments for pregnant women and young mothers with children in the city of Kyiv – a temporary shelter and rehab site for women in difficult life circumstances to prevent abandonment of children and prevention of domestic violence providing services for 23 mothers with 23 children annually (since 2013).

[25] Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the platform has been used as the basis for its umbrella organizations to operate 82 mobile psychosocial aid teams for victims of the war.

[27][28][29] International Charitable Foundation (ICF) “Ukrainian Foundation for Public Health”, jointly with the Mykolaiv City Council, won the tender announced by the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, took part in the State Program on Establishment of Resilience Centers under the “How are you?” National Mental Health Program initiated by the First Lady of Ukraine, Mrs. Olena Zelenska, and established the first Resilience Center in Mykolaiv Region.

[33] Halyna Skipalska on the official site of HealthRight International Video interview for New York University`s School of Global Public HealthSchool of Global Public Health: Halyna Skipalska, HealthRight International Country Director for Ukraine Skipalska`s interview on Medium for UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (Nov 4, 2022): #StoryOfResistance — Leaving no woman or girl behind during the war in Ukraine Interview for United Nations Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF): In Her Own Words #InvestInWomen