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Özge Karanfil

Asst. Prof.
Business Administration - Operations Management and Information Systems
CASE 140
+90 212 338 1463
okaranfil@ku.edu.tr

Overview

Özge Karanfil is an assistant professor at Koç University jointly at the College of Administrative Sciences and Economics and the School of Medicine. She is a faculty affiliate at KUTTAM and KUISCID research Centers, and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management. She received her BSc and MSc degrees in Industrial Engineering from Boğaziçi University, an MSc degree in Physiology from McGill University, a Ph.D. at MIT Sloan School of Management in 2016, with a concentration in health system dynamics, and completed her postdoctoral studies as a Yerby Fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, Dept of Global Health and Population in 2018. She received the Best Undergraduate Paper award at YAEM in 2002, the Dana Meadows Award for the Best Student Paper in 2006, the Lupina Young Researchers Award for the Best Healthcare Paper in 2017, the Koç -Harvard Visiting Scholar Fellowship by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2019, the Yerby Fellowship by Harvard School of Public Health in 2016, the TÜBİTAK 2232 International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers in 2020, and a UNIC4ER Seed Fund in 2023. With a focus on management science and a strong footing in complex systems analysis, her tenure as an Assistant Professor at Koç University has been dedicated to tackling pressing global health challenges. At the intersection of business administration and medicine, Dr. Karanfil aims to leverage data analysis with a multidisciplinary approach to contribute to academic community as well as shaping policy-relevant outcomes.

Research areas

Evidence-Based Medicine , Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines , Obesity , Disease Biomarkers; Physiological Disease Modeling , System Dynamics , Field Research , Diagnostic Screening Programs , Chronic Disease Management; Cancer , Interactive Management Simulations & Gaming , Diabetes , Systematic Literature Reviews , Global Health , Qualitative Stakeholder Participation , Cardiovascular Diseases , Systems Thinking , Dynamic Modeling For Policy Analysis and Management , Multicultural Settings , NCDS , Health Policy

Education

2016,

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2007,

Master’s, McGill University

2005,

Master's, Boğaziçi University

2002,

Bachelor’s, Boğaziçi University

Awards

2017,

Lupina Young Researchers Award, Best Healthcare Paper

2006,

Dana Meadows Award, Best Student Paper

Links

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