Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özge Karadağ Çaman, a lecturer at the Public Health Institute of Hacettepe University, attended the 10th Health Summit meeting held in Berlin, the capital of Germany.

Çaman attended the meeting as a "Young Leader Physician" representing Turkey and delivered a keynote speech. She said that she wished for a global focus on healthcare.

Sponsored within the scope of Academic and Scientific Cooperation Project of Turkey, conducted by Yunus Emre Institute under the auspices of the Presidency of the Turkish Republic, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Çaman pointed out that Sustainable Development Goals should be discussed with reference to certain concrete actions, not as a mere set of theoretical concepts.

Çaman expressed her wish for a summit meeting where resources and experiences should be exchanged on how to reduce the inequalities among vulnerable or disadvantages populations and people, and she drew attention to the "One Health" concept. She indicated that it is impossible to protect human health alone without protecting animal, plant and environmental health. "Therefore, I believe what we need to do is to discuss how we can implement the One Health approach in all policies and what concrete steps can be taken to promote the One Health approach," she said.

Noting that the world peace is at the heart of all global healthcare issues, Çaman underlined that the world peace is indispensable for attaining global healthcare targets.  

Çaman works on such topics as health and access to healthcare services of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups such as the youth, immigrants, refugees and the disabled individuals, social participation in healthcare services, health promotion, mental health of society, healthy cities and sustainable development. In addition to her research and teaching duties at the university, she has been providing counseling services on public health issues for the United Nations agencies and the European Union organizations as well as public authorities and civil society organizations for 15 years.