Biography:
Dr. Omur Cinar Elci has over 30 years of global public health, epidemiology, primary health care, and occupational health experience and more than 20 years of research and teaching experience, including a Fogarty postdoctoral fellowship in epidemiology at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and field epidemiology experience at the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), where he received the CDC's prestigious Bullard Sherwood Research to Practice (r2p) Award, and the World Health Organization (WHO). He is a seasoned global public health practitioner and a leader with an extensive experience in academic management.
As a global public health scholar, he always emphasized social justice, human rights, teamwork, collaboration, community partnership, and collective productivity. He focused on producing sustainable solutions for prioritized public health problems through community- oriented projects and community engagement. Finding sustainable solutions through translational research has always been his passion.
As an occupational physician, he served in various industries to produce sustainable solutions for various occupational safety and health problems. After completing his 25 years of global service to public health, in 2015, he was elected as a member of the Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health, the most prestigious and oldest honor society in public health.