Dr. Ozge Karadag

BIOGRAPHY:

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. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Climate at the Climate School and is also affiliated with BAU Istanbul, School of Medicine as a Professor of Public Health. 

Dr. Karadag previously worked as a public health faculty member at Hacettepe University for 12 years. She was a visiting scholar at Lund University in 2010 and Columbia University in 2017. She also worked as a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Development of the Columbia Climate School between 2019-2023.

Her main interests are global health and health equity with a specific focus on populations living in vulnerable conditions, adolescent/ youth health, health promotion and education, community mental health, and community participation in health, with strong links to urban health including climate change, migration, disaster preparedness, and resilience.

In the last 20 years, Dr. Karadag has worked as a consultant for WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, UNHCR, UNDP, IOM, European Commission, and the Council of Europe, in addition to different governmental and non-governmental organizations. During the pandemic, she was a member of the Scientific Secretariat 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 and co-authored the Global Happiness and Well-being Policy Report 2022. She is currently an Advisory Board Member for “The Lancet Regional Health Europe Commission on “Health, Migration and Climate Change” and a Commissioner in the “Lancet Psychiatry Commission on Climate Change and Mental Health”. 

Dr. Karadag has more than 150 scientific publications, including peer reviewed articles, book chapters, technical reports, and conference papers with more than 3600 citations.