Ozge Karadag

Co-chair

Medical doctor and Professor of Public Health at Bahçeşehir University Istanbul, School of Medicine

Prof. Karadag earned her Medical Doctor (MD) degree from Istanbul University, and her MSc and PhD Degrees in Public Health from Hacettepe University. She also holds a postgraduate degree in “Health Promotion” from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. 

Dr. Karadag is currently working as a Professor of Public Health at BAU Istanbul, School of Medicine. She previously worked as a faculty member at Hacettepe University‘s Faculty of Medicine and Institute of Public Health for 12 years. She was a visiting researcher at Lund University‘s Faculty of Medicine in 2010 and the Earth Institute of Columbia University in 2017. She was a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Development of Columbia University`s Climate School between 2019-2023 and a member of Columbia University`s Committee on Forced Migration between 2020-2023.

Prof. Karadag has been working as a consultant for WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNDP, IOM, and the European Commission, in addition to different governmental and non-governmental organizations for more than 15 years. She was a Scientific Secretariat Member at The Lancet COVID-19 Commission (2020-2022) and one of the experts of the Global Happiness Council (2020-2022), where she chaired the Vulnerable Populations Thematic Group. She currently co-chairs the CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement and is one of the Task Force members of the Lancet Migration Euro Hub.