He was born in 1965 in Elazig. He graduated from Fırat University Faculty of Medicine (1989). In 2017, he was appointed as a Professor in the Department of Public Health, Gulhane Faculty of Medicine, University of Health Sciences. He worked at the Ministry of Health between 1997 and 2006, and in 2006 he established the Department of Combating Tobacco and Alcohol Use and served as a branch manager.

He worked as an expert in the Fight Against Tobacco Use in the Turkey Office of the World Health Organization between 2007-2012 and in the Global Traffic Safety Project between 2013-2015. Since 2016, she has been working as the Program Manager for Non-Communicable Diseases and Health Promotion in the Turkey Office of the World Health Organization. He currently carries out projects related to "Effective Implementation of Smoke-Free Airspace", "Hypertension Control", "Reduction of Salt Use", "Elimination of Trans Fats" and "Remote Health Service Delivery in response to the COVID-19 pandemic".

During his duty at the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health; He made life-saving public health interventions to reduce tobacco use such as the signing and implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control by Turkey, the preparation of the National Tobacco Control Program, the preparation and implementation of the smoke-free law, especially in restaurants and cafeterias, and the application of flat packs. Provided technical support to nearly 60 countries on the preparation and implementation of national tobacco control programs and laws. He contributed to the enactment of laws and regulations for alcohol control, elimination of industrial trans fats and reduction of salt use. He worked in projects for seat belt use and speed reduction.

During his duties at the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization, he took active roles in the Marmara earthquake, the Indonesian Banda Ache earthquake and Tsunami, the Bingol earthquake, the Van Erciş earthquake, the Erzurum Aşkale earthquake, the Elazig earthquake and in the coordination of public health services for Syrian refugees. During the 2009 bird flu epidemic, he coordinated the trainings and surveillance activities given in the provinces of Van, Iğdır and Erzurum in the Eastern Anatolia region, and also directed the national vaccination campaigns in the same region in different years. He has participated in many activities and information programs to inform the public from the very beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic.

He has numerous publications on health promotion, prevention of chronic diseases and risk factors, combating substance abuse and tobacco and alcohol use. In 2016, he received the World Health Organization "Director-General's Reward of Excellence" award for his programs for Syrian Immigrants. He served actively in the UN Turkey task force, which received the "United Nations Non-Communicable Diseases Task Force Award" in 2018.