Toker Ergüder
Since 2007, he has been working at the WHO Country Office in Turkey. He’s a Turkish medical doctor, specialized in Public Health and has a degree of Professor of Public Health.
He managed WHO tobacco control activities at country level; assisted national government in strengthening implementation of FCTC and tobacco control legislation, monitoring national action plan, developing policies and programmes funded by Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use. Before joining the WHO, he worked as Director of Tobacco Control Department of Ministry of Health of Turkey between 2002 and 2007. He also provided technical assistance to other countries to enhance tobacco control activities in different regions. He worked at the Global Road Safety Program in Turkey that focused on to reduce the number of traffic related injuries and deaths.
Professor Ergüder is currently programme coordinator for Noncommunicable Diseases and Promoting Health through the Life-Course at the WHO CO in Turkey. He co-ordinates work in the areas of prevention, control and management of non-communicable diseases and four main behavioural risk factors. He provided technical assistance for development of multisectoral national action plans for prevention and control of NCDs, the case for investment, tobacco control, alcohol control, nutrition, obesity and physical activity and mental health in Turkey. He is coordinating The United Nations Interagency Task Force (UNIATF) on the Prevention and Control of NCDs at country level.
He conducted many NCDs risk factors surveys like as GATS, GYTS and STEPS etc. as well as studies for health status of Syrian Refuges in Turkey. He has many publications in the area of tobacco control, alcohol control and NCDs. He is currently implementing two projects on hypertension control and reduce salt consumption and elimination of trans fats under RESOLVE initiative of Vital Strategies.
Professor Erguder is member of the Scientific Board of Turkish Green Crescent Society and has many publications on tobacco control and prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.