Professor Akgun is ( MD, PhDs, MSc, CPHHA) a Professor of Medicine and Public
Health with more than 30 plus years of strong experience in quality and accreditation inhigher education and health care. The variety of research topics she has addressed and
working as a consultant with collaboration of several international technical supports,
demonstrates the wide scope of her interests in public health, quality improvement and
accreditation in higher education and health care. She led a number of projects in Europe,
the Middle East and Mediterranean Region, Central Asia and India including projects
supported by World Bank, European Commission, DAAD and WHO on system reform in
health and higher education, performance assessment, hospital surveying, and external
reviewer of institutional and program accreditation programs among many more such
projects. She is a reviewer NCAAA Educational Evaluation Commission, and consulted more
than 50 hospitals and universities in KSA, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Jordan and Turkey during
their NCAAA, Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA) and CBAHI processes. She
has also PhD in Nutrition (from Netherland) and working as an evaluator for European
Commission (EU F4-F7 Frameworks, Horizon 2020, Marie Curie action, Public Health Food
Quality and Safety.), Canadian Research Institute, Romanian, Turkish and many other
international Research institutes' projects under different topics related health, innovation
and higher education. As an international expert and researcher, Professor Akgun has been
very active in the scientific presentation circles and has presented in excess of 200
presentations to a wide range of audiences world-wide. She is also a prolific writer and has
to her credit more than 300 scientific articles and 16 books in such topics as quality and
accreditation in health care and higher education, healthcare management, system
assessment and design, strategic planning and data management