General Manager, General Directorate of Health Research
Mehmet Rıfat Köse, MD
He was born in 1957. In 1983 he graduated from Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine. He worked in various organizations in Zonguldak between 1983 and 1984, then in Istanbul as Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Şişli Etfal Hospital and as Deputy Director of Istanbul Provincial Health and Social Welfare. He completed his specialization in public health at Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1990.
He was appointed Vice President of the General Directorate of the Ministry of Health Care Services in 1991, General Directorate of Primary Health Care in 1995, and General Manager of Mother, Child Health and Family Planning in 1997. He carried out the task of Deputy Undersecretary in conjunction with that general directorate in 2002. He has been a member of the Board of Health Policy since 2012 and General Manager of the General Directorate of Health Research since May 2014.