Sincan District Health Directorate

Sincan District Health Directorate is a local public health authority operating under the Turkish Ministry of Health, based in Ankara, Türkiye. The institution provides preventive, community-based and occupational health services with direct access to diverse population groups at district level.

The Directorate has strong practical experience in the prevention of NCDs non-communicable diseases, behavioural and lifestyle-focused interventions, health literacy and community outreach. It offers real-life public health settings for piloting, validating and scaling up evidence-based interventions, particularly targeting young people, working-age adults and older populations.

In its routine public health practice, the institution has implemented population-based prevention activities, digital follow-up tools and community programmes in areas such as immunisation, chronic disease prevention and maternal–child health. These experiences support the Directorate’s capacity to translate research outputs into practical and scalable public health action.

The Directorate serves a population of approximately 600,000 residents, comparable in scale to large European cities or capital municipalities. In addition, the district hosts organised industrial zones with an active workforce of around 100,000 employees, providing a substantial real-life setting for workplace-based and community-level public health interventions.

Sincan District Health Directorate is interested in participating in Horizon Europe Health Cluster and Mission Cancer projects as a consortium partner, contributing primarily to field implementation, stakeholder engagement, dissemination and policy uptake.