Looking for Consortium: Asst. Prof. Dr. ESRA ÖZER

Assistant Professor Dr, ESRA ÖZER

**Faculty of Health Sciences, Ankara Medipol University, Türkiye

2. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY**

• Core Expertise: Specializing in the intersection of climate change, air quality, environmental exposures, women’s health, and pregnancy outcomes, with a particular focus on how environmental risk factors affect maternal and neonatal health. My research brings together women’s health, environmental epidemiology, health inequalities, risk modelling, and climate-sensitive maternal care to generate clinically and public health–relevant evidence.

• Research Goal: My research goal is to generate scientifically robust, clinically meaningful, and policy-relevant evidence on the impact of climate change and air pollution on women’s health, particularly during pregnancy. I aim to identify vulnerable populations, develop risk prediction and early warning approaches, and contribute to the design of climate-resilient maternal care models that can be translated into real-world healthcare practice and public health policy.

3. KEY METHODOLOGICAL EXPERTISE & RESEARCH FOCUS

·       Maternal and neonatal health outcomes research

·       Climate-health and environmental exposure research in pregnancy

·       Air pollution and heat-related health risk interpretation

·       Cross-sectional, cohort, mixed-method, and qualitative research design

·       Scale development, validity-reliability testing, psychometrics, SEM/CFA/EFA

·       Biostatistics, evidence synthesis, and systematic review / meta-analysis

·       Vulnerable groups, women-centered care, and public health policy interpretation

·       Intervention design and implementation-oriented maternal care models

4. CLINICAL DOMAINS OF APPLICATION

·        Primary Areas: Pregnancy, maternal health, midwifery, obstetric outcomes, reproductive health

• Secondary Areas: Women’s health after environmental disasters, digital health in women’s health, public health resilience

6. PROJECT EXPERIENCE & PROPOSED ROLE

• Previous Experience: Extensive experience in multidisciplinary research in women’s health, pregnancy, maternal care, and midwifery, including leadership and active involvement in clinical, public health, psychometric, qualitative, and evidence synthesis studies. My methodological expertise also includes data mining, advanced statistical modelling, and matched/unmatched analytical designs, enabling me to work with complex and large-scale datasets in maternal and population health research. This background supports robust investigation of maternal outcomes, health inequalities, environmental determinants, and innovative care approaches.

• Proposed Role in Consortium: I can contribute as a Work Package Leader or senior research partner for women’s health, pregnancy, maternal outcomes, and population-based health analyses. My role would be particularly relevant in projects involving environmental health, climate-sensitive maternal care, vulnerable populations, outcome modelling, comparative analyses, and translation of research evidence into public health and healthcare system practice. I would also be well suited to lead tasks related to the interpretation of maternal and neonatal outcomes, development of risk frameworks, and integration of gender-sensitive and women-centred perspectives into consortium activities.

• Infrastructure & Data Capacity: Infrastructure & Data Capacity:

• I have strong methodological and data capacity for clinical and population-based health research, including expertise in data mining, matched/unmatched analyses, observational study design, psychometric tool development, qualitative research, and advanced statistical evaluation. In addition, I have access to province-level air quality index data covering all 81 provinces of Türkiye over a 30-year period, creating a substantial infrastructure for longitudinal, regional, and environmental health analyses. This provides an important foundation for linking environmental exposure data with maternal and neonatal health outcomes, supporting multicentre collaboration and the development of policy-relevant outputs in Horizon-type projects.