Dr. Canan Birimoglu Okuyan is an assistant professor in the department of public health nursing at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey. She earned a Master of Science in the Department of Public Health Nursing from Gaziantep University in 2012. Then, she received her Ph.D. in the Department of Public Health Nursing, Gazi University. During Ph.D., she has studied at the Turku University of Applied Science in Turku/Finland. She worked as a visiting researcher at the Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester/UK. She serves as an Editorial board member of more than five international Journals

Dr. Canan Birimoglu Okuyan is interested fields of research are Public health nursing, Gerontological and Geriatric Nursing, Health promotion, School health nursing, and Nursing Research. Her work is currently supported by a Grant from the Scientific Research Project Unit of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University.