Name – Surname: Özen Aşut
Languages: English
EDUCATION
High school: Izmir American Collegiate Institute
Bachelor: Istanbul University Istanbul Medical School – 1970
Residency training: 1. Internal MedicineDepartment of Hacettepe University Medical School (title of internal medicine specialist) -1974
- Community Medicine Department of Hacettepe University Medical School (title of public health specialist) -1979
EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
Current position: Teaching staff
Title: Associate professor
Department: Public Health
ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
She worked in the Etimesgut and Cubuk community medicine training and research areas of Hacettepe University Medical School, participating in the field education programs for medical students and residents during 1975-79.
She became associate professor of public health in 1990. She has been working specifically on tobacco control, chronic diseases, aging issues and health. After 1995, she worked on tobacco control and tobacco dependency treatment and also vocational education and training of general practitioners. She participated as educator in many courses and other educational programs for doctors. She attended many national and international meetings on different aspects of tobacco issue.
She worked as advisor and consultant of the WHO during 2001-2002. The report of their working group titled “External Evaluation of the European Health Care Reforms- Report of an Independent External Evaluation of Health Care Reform Programmes” was presented to the WHO Regional Committee for Europe Meeting (Copenhagen,16-17 September 2002) .
She worked in a number of projects during 2006-2014. She was project expert in the international project titled “Operational Research on Key STDs and HIV in Turkey –ORKSH”(2006-7). During 2008-2014, she worked as coordinator and consultant in 5 projects on tobacco control.
Her published work includes the books “Physician and Smoking“ and “30 Years in Health“, also a number of book sections on tobacco issue and medical education and articles on tobacco and different aspects of public health. She has been working at the Public Health Department of NEU Faculty of Medicine since April 2015, working full-time since April 1, 2016.