Meet the editor

Ayşe Emel Önal, MD, graduated from the Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, in 1985. In 1995, she became a public health specialist for the Department of Public Health at the same university. She became an associate professor of public health in 2005 and a full professor in 2011. Currently, she is the director of the Environmental Health Department and the Department of Public Health, Istanbul University. She has more

than 300 publications and presentations in national and international journals and congresses to her credit. She has also authored book chapters and served as a book editor. Her main research areas are infectious and chronic non-communicable diseases, epidemiology, gerontology, and environmental health.
