Dr. Selma Karabey is Professor of Public Health at Istanbul University. She currently serves as the Chair of the Working Group on Public Mental Health in the Association of Public Health Specialists-Turkey, and of the Post-graduate Education Program on Public Health at the Istanbul Medical Faculty and the member of National Committee of Program Developing on Public Health Post-graduate Education. She has worked as a Senior Advisor of National Program on Multi-sectoral Health Approach leaded by the Turkish Ministry of Health between 2011-2013. She has been acting as a board member of BirIZ Association which is a CSO performing community mental health. Her major interests are mental health promotion and social policies in health.