State structures must play one of the leading roles in promoting the population's health and in preventing non-communicable diseases (NCD). To ensure that the state structures work effectively, their members should know and use scientifically sound approaches to working out NCD prevention programs and policy and to molding a healthy lifestyle. However, expert judgments for the programs frequently show that experience and a well-defined scheme of the elaboration and implementation of NCD prevention programs are absent in the specialists involved in their elaboration. To teach scientifically sound NCD prevention methods to public health administrators, in 2000 the National Research Center for Preventive Medicine worked out an educational seminar "Scientifically Sound NCD Prevention". In the past 14 years, the course has taken place in seven regions of Russia (Moscow, Tver, Saint Petersburg, Yakutsk, Tomsk, Chelyabinsk, and Tyumen). The materials of the educational seminar have been constantly updated having regard to the needs of its chief audience - decision makers. To do this, the audience has been proposed to assess the seminar as a whole, its individual topics, teachers' work, and organizational moments, to leave own comments, and to offer suggestions on its modernization. The 2010-2011 investigation estimating the decision-makers' needs for teaching a scientifically sound approach to elaborating NCS prevention programs has also demonstrated that the public health administrators' need for knowledge about different aspects of working with prevention programs among the decision-makers remains rather high. In the past two years, three educational seminars have been conducted for decision-makers. The seminars have been attended by 121 listeners, the representatives of 62 regions. The chief audience has been composed of chief freelance preventive medicine specialists and representatives of the departments and ministries of the Russian Federation's regions. The experience with seminar has shown the need for its further development and its demand among those who it was initially worked out for; namely, health promotion and disease prevention administrators.