Mutlu Hayran

He received his Doctor of Medicine and Master of Science in Cancer Epidemiology degrees from the Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine. He obtained his Public Health specialty by completing the Public Health program at the University of Pittsburgh in the USA. He has also attended courses on clinical research methods, epidemiology, biostatistics, and cancer control organized by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the United States, the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), and the Universities of Michigan in the USA and Pavia in Italy. He worked for two years as a senior researcher in the Cancer Control and Prevention unit at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI). He has served as an instructor in various national and international certificate programs. Between 2012 and 2014, he took part in community-based tobacco control field studies carried out jointly with Johns Hopkins University, the Bloomberg Institute, and the World Health Organization. He currently serves as Head of the Department of Preventive Oncology at the Hacettepe University Cancer Institute, Coordinator of the Research Technical Support Unit of the Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, and member of the Preventive Oncology Subcommittee of the National Cancer Advisory Board of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Türkiye. Since 2012, he has been an associate member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA).