Professor Seval Akgun is a Professor of Public Health and Medicine in Baskent University School of Medicine and University of North Carolina-Pembroke, USA with more than 35 years of strong experience in public health, quality and accreditation in health care, patient safety and epidemiological studies including the assessment of burden of diseases and health and nutritional status indices. She is also a quality expert and serving Baskent University as their Chief Quality Officer for the university, 10 hospitals and 16 hemodialysis centers that belong to the University since 1997. During the past 20 plus years, Professor Akgun has been serving as an expert and evaluator for European Commission on its different programs e,g. Horizon 2020, Marie Curie, COST Innovation and Research (EIT), Public Health, Food Quality and Safety and many more. She is working as a consultant in quality and accreditation in healthcare and higher education, hospital surveys, system assessments, gap analyses, healthcare reforms and performance measurements worldwide.