Prof. Dr. Haydar Sur was born in Konya in 1961. He graduated from the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1986.
Career
He completed his compulsory service as deputy health director in Muş. In 1988 he worked on communicable diseases at the Ministry of Health’s General Directorate of Primary Health Care, taking part in immunisation and communicable disease control programmes.
He became associate professor of public health in 1998 and professor of health management in 2003. In 2016 he took on the roles of Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Director of the Institute of Health Sciences at Üsküdar University. He currently serves as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Üsküdar University and heads the Department of Public Health and the Department of Health Management.
Areas of expertise
His main areas of work are preventive health services, equity in health, health literacy and the future of health systems. He has published on health tourism and healthy living, including a proposed model for healthy living campuses.
With Cellavia
Prof. Dr. Sur contributes to our board with his perspective on preventive health and value-based healthcare.