Open lecture: Turkish healthcare system: its neoliberal reform and policy response during the COVID-19 pandemic

Msc in Public Health & Health Policy

Course: Introduction in Health Systems

Open lecture coorganised with CEHP in January 11th 2022, 17:00-19:00 (UTC+2)

Prof Kayihan Pala will be joining us talking health care reform in Turkey and the neoliberal health policy responses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prof Kayihan Pala is Professor of Public Health with the Public Health Department, Bursa Uludağ University School of Medicine, Bursa, Turkey. He is also an active member of the Turkish Medical Association and member of City Hospitals Monitoring Group.

Related and Recent publications

Public-Private Partnership in Health Care: Case of Turkey

All-Cause Excess Mortality in 2020: The Example of Bursa City in Turkey

COVID-19: Case and Death Notification Problems in Turkey 

His commitment in public health has driven the authorities to open a case against him when he criticised the poor epidemic monitoring setting and the underestimation of the case load in the country.

The  zoom for the event is here