Ayse Seval Palteki received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Public Health at Istanbul University, Türkiye in 2023. In June 2024, she joined the School of Public Health and Emergency Management at Southern University of Science and Technology as a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Jie Huang.
Her research mainly focuses on the health effects of the built environment and health of older adults.
She has published two SCI-indexed articles as co-first author, with a total of over 50 citations and a cumulative impact factor of 11.85. Her research findings have been published in international journals such as Vaccines.

Research Interests

1.      Health and well-being of older adults

2.      Epidemiological studies on the health effects of the built environment

3.      Qualitative research on the social determinants of health

Education and Work Experience

2014/02–2023/06 Ph.D. in Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Istanbul University

2010/10 – 2013/05 Master of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Istanbul University

2004/10 – 2008/07 Bachelor of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul University

2008/10 –2019/10 Environmental Engineer/Head of the Environment Department, Istanbul Cekmekoy Municipality

2019/10 –2023/10 Teaching Assistant, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Istanbul Medipol University

2023/10 –2024/05 Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Istanbul Medipol University

Publications (Co-first author)

1.      Ataç Ö, Küçükali H, Farımaz AZT, Palteki AS, Çavdar S, Aslan MN, Atak M, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y and Hayran O (2024) Family physicians overestimate diagnosis probabilities regardless of the test results. Front. Med. 10:1123689. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1123689

2.      Çavdar S, Tokac AZF, Kucukali H, Palteki AS, Atac O, Hayran O. Evaluation of infant mortality before and during COVID-19 pandemic in a district of Istanbul. Turk J Public Health. 2023;21(3):349–360. doi:10.20518/tjph.1274068.

3.      Kucukali H, Atac O, Palteki AS, Tokac AZ, Hayran O. Vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccination attitudes during the start of COVID-19 vaccination program: A content analysis on Twitter data. Vaccines. 2022 Feb;10(2):161. doi:10.3390/vaccines10020161.