Prof. Dr. Seher Nur Sülkü is a seasoned academic with interdisciplinary experience in statistics, economics, and health policy. She holds a BSc in Statistics from METU, an MA in Economics from Bilkent University, and completed her PhD in Economics at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA with a prestigious full-time scholarship from the Turkish Council of Higher Education. Throughout her career, Dr. Sülkü has served in key academic and policy roles, including as a research associate at Karadeniz Technical University, an economist at the Turkish Ministry of Health (2007–2010), and a faculty member at Gazi University and later Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University (AHVU), where she is currently a full professor of econometrics. She has also been teaching at METU Informatics Institute since 2015.
Her research focuses on the financial burden of healthcare, health system efficiency, cost-effectiveness, public health, social determinants of health and predictive modelling. She has contributed to national policy through her reports and publications on healthcare expenditures and reforms. Her seminal book on Turkey’s Health Transformation Program, published by the Turkish Ministry of Finance. She co-edited The Future of Universal Health Insurance (Nova, 2024), a Scopus-indexed volume offering global perspectives on health coverage. Her published works also include Ekonometrik Teori and a Routledge chapter on private hospital efficiency in Turkey. Sülkü has led and contributed to national and international projects on healthcare efficiency, pay-for-performance systems, financial burdens of healthcare and education, and health policy analysis, collaborated with institutions: Gazi University, KTU, AHRQ (USA), and Turkey’s Ministry of Health and Finance. She actively took part at the organization of prestigious conferences, including EYİ2020, RISE2025 and presented at major conferences including iHEA 2017, VI. Turk Tıp Kurultayı 2019, University&Industry Forum 2025. Her academic work has been published in SSCI, SCI or Scopus indexed high-impact journals. She is a board member editorial BMC Healhtcare Research Services.
