Emine Didem Evci Kiraz

Prof. E. Didem Evci Kiraz is a medical doctor and doctorate in Public Health and a nationally recognized leader in environmental and climate health in Türkiye. She served as director and international liaison at the Ministry of Health. For three decades, she has led WHO’s Healthy Cities Project nationally as Türkiye’s first coordinator and co-founded the Turkish Healthy Cities Association. She is a member of WHO Europe’s Scientific Committee, advises the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change and UNDP, chairs the Department of Environmental Health at Aydın Adnan Menderes University, and serves on the Türkiye Health Policies Institute’s Scientific Council.