About
Sezer Kisa is a Professor in Global Health Nursing within the Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences. She earned her doctoral degree in Obstetrics and Gynecological Nursing from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey in 2007. With over twenty-five years of teaching experience across various levels, from Bachelor of Science to doctoral programs, Kisa has contributed significantly to nursing education.
In addition to her academic role, Sezer Kisa has established a strong presence in the international arena. She has collaborated with institutions in the United States, Malta, Finland, Norway, and several other European Union countries. Her research interests encompass a wide spectrum, focusing on global health, women and adolescent health, social inequality, domestic violence against women, and nursing. She is a research leader of the research group- Migration and Minority Health. Winner of OsloMet Award for 2023 Research and Development.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Health service and health administration research
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Sheikoleslami, Rohangez
;
Princeton, Daisy Michelle
; Hansen, Linda Iren Mihaila;
Kisa, Sezer
;
Goyal, Alka Rani
(2025).
Examining Factors Associated with Attrition, Strategies for Retention Among Undergraduate Nursing Students, and Identified Research Gaps: A Scoping Review.
Nursing Reports.
Vol. 15.
https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep15060182
Wille, Elisabeth
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Opheim, Helene Margrethe Storebø
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Princeton, Daisy M
;
Kisa, Sezer
;
Hjerpaasen, Kari Jonsbu
(2025).
Building Resilience and Competence in Bachelor Nursing Students: A Narrative Review Based on Social Cognitive Theory.
Nursing Reports.
https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep15070253
Steel, Nicholas; Bauer-Staeb, Clarissa Maria Mercedes; Clarissa Maria Mercedes, Bauer-Staeb; Ford, John A.; Ford, John A; Abbafati, Cristiana; Abdalla, Mohammed Altigani; Altigani Abdalla, Mohammed; Abdelkader, Atef; Abdi, Parsa; Zuñiga, Roberto Ariel Abeldaño; Abeldaño Zuñiga, Roberto Ariel; Abiodun, Olugbenga Olusola; Abolhassani, Hassan; Abu-Gharbieh, Eman; Abukhadijah, Hana J.; Abu-Zaid, Ahmed; Addo, Isaac Yeboah; Dadras, Omid; Addolorato, Giovanni; Adekanmbi, Victor; Adetunji, Juliana Bunmi; Adeyeoluwa, Temitayo Esther; Agardh, Emilie E.; Agyemang-Duah, Williams; Ahmad, Danish; Ahmed, Anisuddin; Ahmed, Ayman; Ahmed, Syed Anees; Akinosoglou, Karolina; Akkaif, Mohammed Ahmed; Al Awaidy, Salah; Hay, Simon I; Al Hasan, Syed Mahfuz; Al Zaabi, Omar Ali Mohammed; Wolf, Axel Walter; Aldridge, Robert W.; Wyper, Grant M A; Algammal, Abdelazeem M.; Al-Gheethi, Adel Ali Saeed; Ali, Abid; Ali, Mohammed Usman; Ali, Syed Shujait; Yiğit, Arzu; Ali, Waad; Alicandro, Gianfranco; Alif, Sheikh Mohammad; Al-Jumaily, Adel; Zanghì, Aurora; Allebeck, Peter; Alrawashdeh, Ahmad; Zeariya, Mohammed G M; Al-Rifai, Rami H.; Zhang, Liqun; Alsabri, Mohammed A.; Alshahrani, Najim Z.; Aluh, Deborah Oyine; Al-Wardat, Mohammad; Al-Zyoud, Walid A.; Zielińska, Magdalena; Amiri, Sohrab; Anderlini, Deanna; Zyoud, Sa'ed H; Andrei, Catalina Liliana; Newton, John N; Anil, Abhishek; Anvari, Saeid; Anyasodor, Anayochukwu Edward; Appiah, Seth Christopher Yaw; Aquilano, Michele; Arabloo, Jalal; Arafat, Mosab; Areda, Demelash; Aremu, Abdulfatai; Armani, Keivan; Armocida, Benedetta; Ärnlöv, Johan; Asaduzzaman, Muhammad; Astell-Burt, Thomas; Aujayeb, Avinash; Ausloos, Marcel; Azadnajafabad, Sina; Aziz, Shahkaar; Azzam, Ahmed Y.; Babu, Giridhara Rathnaiah; Badache, Andreea Corina; Badiye, Ashish D.; Bahramian, Saeed; Baig, Atif Amin; Baker, Jennifer L.; Bansal, Hansi; Bärnighausen, Till Winfried; Barone, Mark Thomaz Ugliara; Barrow, Amadou; Barteit, Sandra; Bashir, Shahid; Bashiru, Hameed Akande; Basso, João Diogo; Bastan, Mohammad-Mahdi; Basu, Sanjay; Batra, Kavita; Bauckneht, Matteo; Baune, Bernhard T.; Beghi, Massimiliano; Beiranvand, Maryam; Béjot, Yannick; Bell, Michelle L.; Bello, Olorunjuwon Omolaja; Belo, Luis; Beloukas, Apostolos; Beneke, Alice A.; Bettencourt, Paulo J.G.; Bhagavathula, Akshaya Srikanth; Bhala, Neeraj; Bhaskar, Sonu; Bisulli, Francesca; Bjørge, Tone; Bodunrin, Aadam Olalekan; Carvajal, Alejandro Botero; Bouaoud, Souad; Brayne, Carol; Brenner, Hermann; Briggs, Adam D.M.; Briko, Nikolay Ivanovich; Bugiardini, Raffaele; Buonsenso, Danilo; Busse, Reinhard; Bustanji, Yasser; dos Santos, Florentino Luciano Caetano; Barsbay, Mehtap Çakmak; Capodici, Angelo; Carreras, Giulia; Carugno, Andrea; Carvalho, Felix; Carvalho, Márcia; Castaldelli-Maia, Joao Mauricio; Castelpietra, Giulio; Catapano, Alberico L.; Cattaruzza, Maria Sofia; Cegolon, Luca; Cenko, Edina; Cerin, Ester; Cerrai, Sonia; Chaudhary, Anis Ahmad; Chong, Bryan; Choudhari, Sonali Gajanan; Chu, Dinh Toi; Chukwu, Isaac Sunday; Chung, Sheng-Chia; Cioffi, Iolanda; Conde, Joao; Cortese, Samuele; Couto, Rosa A.S.; Criqui, Michael H.; Cruz-Martins, Natalia; Dadras, Omid; Dallat, Mary Anne Teresa; D'Amico, Emanuele; D'Anna, Lucio; Darcho, Samuel Demissie; Dargan, Paul I.; Das, Saswati; de la Torre-Luque, Alejandro; Del Bo, Cristian; Demetriades, Andreas K.; Dervenis, Nikolaos; Devleesschauwer, Brecht; Dhali, Arkadeep; Dhama, Kuldeep; Dianatinasab, Mostafa; Diaz, Michael J.; Dongarwar, Deepa; D'Oria, Mario; Doshi, Ojas Prakashbhai; Dowou, Robert Kokou; Duraisamy, Senbagam; Durojaiye, Oyewole Christopher; Dziedzic, Arkadiusz Marian; Edvardsson, David; Edvardsson, Kristina; Eikemo, Terje Andreas; Ekholuenetale, Michael; Ekundayo, Temitope Cyrus; El Arab, Rabie Adel; Elgar, Frank J.; Elhadi, Muhammed; Eltaha, Chadi; Esposito, Francesco; Fabin, Natalia; Fagbamigbe, Adeniyi Francis; Fagbule, Omotayo Francis; Fakhri-Demeshghieh, Aliasghar; Falzone, Luca; Sofia e Sá Farinha, Carla; Faris, Pawan Sirwan; Fasina, Folorunso Oludayo; Fazeli, Patrick; Fazylov, Timur; Feizkhah, Alireza; Fekadu, Ginenus; Feng, Xiaoqi; Fereshtehnejad, Seyed-Mohammad; Ferrante, Daniela; Ferrara, Pietro; Ferreira, Nuno; Fetensa, Getahun; Fischer, Florian; Fonzo, Marco; Fornari, Arianna; Fortuna, Daniela; Rodrigues, Celia Fortuna; Foschi, Matteo; Fox, Sebastian S.; Freitas, Alberto; Fukumoto, Takeshi; Gadanya, Muktar A.; Gallus, Silvano; Galluzzo, Lucia; Ganesan, Balasankar; Ganiyani, Mohammad Arfat; Gao, Xiang; Garcia-Gordillo, Ma; Gazzelloni, Federica; Gebregergis, Miglas Welay; Gebremeskel, Teferi Gebru; Ghadimi, Delaram J.; Ghailan, Khalid Yaser; Ghith, Nermin; Gholami, Ehsan; Gialluisi, Alessandro; Gill, Paramjit Singh; Gillam, Tara; Giussani, Giorgia; Glasbey, James C.; Glenn, Scott D.; Göbölös, Laszlo; Goldust, Mohamad; Golechha, Mahaveer; Goleij, Pouya; Golinelli, Davide; Gorini, Giuseppe; Graham, Simon Matthew; Griebler, Robert; Grover, Ashna; Guicciardi, Stefano; Gunturu, Sasidhar; Gupta, Vijai Kumar; Gutiérrez-Murillo, Roberth Steven; Habteyohannes, Awoke Derbie; Haep, Nils; Nam, Nguyen Hai; Haller, Sebastian; Hamoudi, Rifat; Handanagic, Senad; Haro, Josep Maria; Hasani, Hamidreza; Hasnain, Md Saquib; Havmoeller, Rasmus J.; Hay, Simon I.; Hebert, Jeffrey J.; Heibati, Behzad; Hilderink, Henk B.M.; Hiraike, Yuta; Hoan, Nguyen Quoc; Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi; Hostiuc, Sorin; Hoven, Hanno; Hu, Chengxi; Huang, Junjie; Hughes, Andrew; Hultström, Michael; Hushmandi, Kiavash; Hussain, Javid; Hussain, M. Azhar; Ikiroma, Adalia; Inok, Arit; Islam, Md Rabiul; Islam, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful; Isola, Gaetano; Iyer, Mahalaxmi; Jacob, Louis; Jahrami, Haitham; Jairoun, Ammar Abdulrahman; Jaka, Sanobar; Jakovljevic, Mihajlo; Jawaid, Talha; Jeswani, Bijay Mukesh; Jonas, Jost B.; Joshua, Charity Ehimwenma; Kaambwa, Billingsley; Kabir, Zubair; Hussein Kadir, Dler H.; Kamath, Rajesh; Kanmodi, Kehinde Kazeem; Kapoor, Neeti; Karakasis, Paschalis; Karanikolos, Marina; Karaye, Ibraheem M.; Kauppila, Joonas H.; Kazemian, Sina; Kesse-Guyot, Emmanuelle; Khamesipour, Faham; Khan, Ajmal; Khanmohammadi, Shaghayegh; Khatab, Khaled; Khatatbeh, Moawiah Mohammad; Khormali, Moein; Khosla, Atulya Aman; Khosravi, Majid;
Khosrowjerdi, Mahmood
; Khubchandani, Jagdish; Kim, Kwanghyun; Kim, Min Seo; Kisa, Adnan;
Kisa, Sezer
; Knudsen, Ann Kristin Skrindo; Koren, Gerbrand; Kuddus, Md Abdul; Kuitunen, Ilari; Kulimbet, Mukhtar; Kumar, Rakesh; Kunutsor, Setor K.; Kurmi, Om P.; Kusuma, Dian; Kytö, Ville; La Vecchia, Carlo; Lai, Hanpeng; Lallukka, Tea; Lanfranchi, Francesco; Langguth, Berthold; Laplante-Lévesque, Ariane; Larson, Heidi Jane; Larsson, Anders; Lee, Munjae; Lee, Paul H.; Lee, Seung Won; Lee, Wei-Chen; Lindholm, Daniel; Linehan, Christine; Liu, Xuefeng; Llanaj, Erand; López-Gil, José Francisco; Lorkowski, Stefan; Lucchetti, Giancarlo; Lugo, Alessandra; Lunevicius, Raimundas; Luo, Lisha; Amin, Hawraz Ibrahim M.; Ma, Zheng Feei; Machairas, Nikolaos; Machoy, Monika; Malhotra, Kashish; Malik, Ahmad Azam; Mansour, Ali; Manu, Emmanuel; Marateb, Hamid Reza; Martini, Daniela; Martorell, Miquel; Marzo, Roy Rillera; Mathangasinghe, Yasith; Mathur, Medha; Matozinhos, Fernanda Penido; Maude, Richard James; Maugeri, Andrea; May, Juergen; Mayeli, Mahsa; Mazidi, Mohsen; McKee, Martin; Mechili, Enkeleint A.; Mehravar, Sepideh; Meto, Tesfahun Mekene; Meles, Hadush Negash; Mentis, Alexios-Fotios A.; Meretoja, Atte; Meretoja, Tuomo J.; Mettananda, Sachith; Micha, Georgia; Michalek, Irmina Maria; Miller, Ted R.; Minervini, Giuseppe; Mirijello, Antonio; Mocciaro, Gabriele; Fard, Atousa Moghadam; Mohamed, Jama; Mohamed, Nouh Saad; Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Abdollah; Mohammed, Shafiu; Monasta, Lorenzo; Mondello, Stefania; Ali Moni, Mohammad; Moraga, Paula; Morawska, Lidia; Mossie, Tilahun Belete; Motappa, Rohith; Mubarik, Sumaira; Muccioli, Lorenzo; Mueller, Ulrich Otto; Mughal, Faraz; Mulita, Francesk; Munblit, Daniel; Munkhsaikhan, Yanjinlkham; Murray, Christopher J.L.; Naghavi, Mohsen; Naghavi, Pirouz; Naik, Ganesh R.; Najdaghi, Soroush; Naqvi, Atta Abbas; Davani, Delaram Narimani; Nascimento, Gustavo G.; Naser, Abdallah Y.; Nashwan, Abdulqadir J.; Nauman, Javaid; Navaratna, Samidi Nirasha Kumari; Nazri-Panjaki, Athare; Nejjari, Chakib; Nena, Evangelia; Netsere, Henok Biresaw; Nguyen, Anh Hoang; Nguyen, Phat Tuan; Nguyen, Van Thanh; Nnyanzi, Lawrence Achilles; Noor, Syed Toukir Ahmed; Nouri, Mehran; Nugen, Fred; Nurchis, Mario Cesare; Nzoputam, Ogochukwu Janet; Oancea, Bogdan; O'Donnell, Martin James; Oduro, Michael Safo; Ogundijo, Oluwaseun Adeolu; Ogunsakin, Ropo Ebenezer; Okeke, Sylvester Reuben; Okonji, Osaretin Christabel; Olagunju, Andrew T.; Oliver, Susan; Olufadewa, Isaac Iyinoluwa; Ortiz, Alberto; Owolabi, Mayowa O.; Padukudru, Mahesh P.A.; Padubidri, Jagadish Rao; Palma-Alvarez, Raul Felipe Felipe; Panda, Sujogya Kumar; Panda-Jonas, Songhomitra; Panos, Georgios D.; Panos, Leonidas D.; Pantazopoulos, Ioannis; Pardhan, Shahina; Parikh, Romil R.; Passera, Roberto; Patil, Shankargouda; Patoulias, Dimitrios; Pawar, Shrikant; Pensato, Umberto; Pereira, Gavin Francis; Perico, Norberto; Perna, Simone; Petermann-Rocha, Fanny Emily; Pham, Hoang Nhat; Philip, Anil K.; Pierannunzio, Daniela; Pigeolet, Manon; Pisoni, Enrico; Poddighe, Dimitri; Poluru, Ramesh; Postma, Maarten J.; Pradhan, Jalandhar; Pupillo, Elisabetta; Puvvula, Jagadeesh; Raggi, Alberto; Rahman, Mosiur; Rahman, Muhammad Aziz; Raimondo, Diego; Raimondo, Ivano; Ramasamy, Shakthi Kumaran; Ramazanu, Sheena; Rana, Rishabh Kumar; Rao, Sowmya J.; Rasella, Davide; Rashid, Ahmed Mustafa; Rauniyar, Santosh Kumar; Rautalin, Ilari; Rawaf, David Laith; Rawaf, Salman; Reddy, Murali Mohan Rama Krishna; Moustafa Mohamed Redwan, Elrashdy M.; Reifels, Lennart; Remuzzi, Giuseppe; Rezaeian, Mohsen; Ribeiro, Ana Isabel; Rijal, Anupa; Rodriguez, Jefferson Antonio Buendia; Romoli, Michele; Ronfani, Luca; Root, Kevin T.; Rout, Himanshu Sekhar; Roy, Nitai; Russo, Michele; Saad, Aly M.A.; Sabet, Cameron John; Dhingra, Mamta Sachdeva; Saeed, Umar; Safari, Mehdi; Safdarian, Mahdi; Saleh, Mohamed A.; Salem, Mohammed Z.Y.; Salum, Giovanni A.; Samuel, Vijaya Paul; Samy, Abdallah M.; Saravanan, Aswini; Saravi, Babak; Sarkar, Chinmoy; Saulam, Jennifer; Scarmeas, Nikolaos; Schaarschmidt, Benedikt Michael; Schinckus, Christophe; Schlaich, Markus P.; Schmidt, Jurgen Carlo; Schuermans, Art; Schumacher, Austin E.; Schwendicke, Falk; Schwinger, Catherine Monika; Sepanlou, Sadaf G.; Shafie, Mahan; Shahsavari, Hamid R.; Ali Shaikh, Masood; Shakil, Husain; Sham, Sunder; Shamim, Muhammad Aaqib; Sharew, Nigussie Tadesse; Sharifan, Amin; Shavandi, Amin; Shenoy, Rekha Raghuveer; Shetty, Mahabalesh; Shetty, Pavanchand H.; Shetty, Premalatha K.; Shigematsu, Mika; Shittu, Aminu; Shiue, Ivy; Shorofi, Seyed Afshin; Shrestha, Rajan; Shrestha, Roman; Siddig, Emmanuel Edwar; Silva, Joao Pedro; Silva, Luis Manuel Lopes Rodrigues; Silva, Soraia; Singh, Puneetpal; Singh, Surjit; Sipilä, Jussi O.T.; Skryabina, Anna Aleksandrovna; Sokhan, Anton; Soraneh, Soroush; Soriano, Joan B.; Soyiri, Ireneous N.; Spartalis, Michael; Steiropoulos, Paschalis; Stockfelt, Leo; Sun, Jing; Sundström, Johan; Sunkersing, David; Sunnerhagen, Kathrina Stibrant; Swain, Chandan Kumar; Szarpak, Lukasz; Sudha, Sree T.Y.; Damavandi, Payam Tabaee; Tabares-Seisdedos, Rafael; Tabatabaei, Seyyed Mohammad; Tabche, Celine; Tabibi, Ramin; Taiba, Jabeen; Tanwar, Manoj; Tat, Nathan Y.; Taveira, Nuno; Temsah, Mohamad-Hani; Thayakaran, Rasiah; Tiruye, Tenaw Yimer; Touvier, Mathilde; Tovani-Palone, Marcos Roberto; Tran, Jasmine T.; Tran, Ngoc Ha; Tran, Thang Huu; Trico, Domenico; Tromans, Samuel Joseph; Tsermpini, Evangelia Eirini; Car, Lorainne Tudor; Tumurkhuu, Munkhtuya; Ullah, Saeed; Unim, Brigid; Vaithinathan, Asokan Govindaraj; Valenti, Mario; Van den Eynde, Jef; Varga, Orsolya; Vasankari, Tommi Juhani; Vellingiri, Balachandar; Veroux, Massimiliano; Vervoort, Dominique; Villafane, Jorge Hugo; Violante, Francesco S.; Vizzielli, Giuseppe; Vodden, Alice; Vollset, Stein Emil; Vos, Theo; Wafa, Hatem A.; Wang, Yanzhong; Wassie, Emebet Gashaw; Weerakoon, Kosala Gayan; Westerman, Ronny; Wickramasinghe, Nuwan Darshana; Willeit, Peter; Wojewodzic, Marcin Wlodzimierz;
Wolf, Axel
; Wolfe, Charles D.A.; Wyper, Grant M.A.; Xu, Xiaoyue; Yasufuku, Yuichi; Yaya, Sanni; Yezli, Saber; YiǧKit, Arzu; Yon, Dong Keon; Yu, Chuanhua; Zakham, Fathiah; Zanghi, Aurora; Zastrozhin, Michael; Zeariya, Mohammed G.M.; Zhang, Liqun; Zhang, Zhiqiang; Zhong, Claire Chenwen; Zhu, Bin; Ziafati, Makan; ZielińAska, Magdalena; Zweck, Elric; Zyoud, Sa'ed H.; Newton, John N.
(2025).
Changing life expectancy in European countries 1990–2021: a subanalysis of causes and risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
The Lancet Public Health.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00009-X
Haeuser, Emily; Byrne, Sam; Nguyen, Jason; Kisa, Adnan; McLaughlin, Susan A;
Kisa, Sezer
; Vaccine Coverage Collaborators, GBD 2023
(2025).
Global, regional, and national trends in routine childhood vaccination coverage from 1980 to 2023 with forecasts to 2030: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.
26 p.
The Lancet.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01037-2
Rautalin, Ilari; Volovici, Victor; Stark, Benjamin A.; Kisa, Adnan; Johnson, Catherine O.; Kaprio, Jaakko A.;
Kisa, Sezer
; Korja, Miikka; Hemorrhage Risk Factors Collab, GBD 2021 Global Subarachnoid
(2025).
GBD 2021 Global Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Risk Factors Collaborators. Global, Regional, and National Burden of Nontraumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.
23 p.
JAMA Neurology.
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.1522
Bron, Alain M.; Jonas, Jost B.; Kisa, Adnan; Cicinelli, Maria Vittoria;
Kisa, Sezer
; Tapply, Ian; Fernandes, Arthur G.; Vision Impairment Collaborator, GBD 2019 Blindness and; Vision Loss Expert Group, Global Burden of Disease Study
(2025).
Prevalence of Vision Loss in High-Income Countries and in Eastern and Central Europe in 2020: Magnitude and Temporal Trends.
14 p.
Ophthalmic Epidemiology.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09286586.2025.2486461
Zhang, Chen; Yang, Xuan; Wan, Dongshan; Ma, Qingfeng; Yin, Peng; Kisa, Adnan;
Kisa, Sezer
; Neurological Disorders Collabo, GBD 2021 China; Zhou, Maigeng
(2025).
Burden of neurological disorders in China and its provinces, 1990–2021: Findings from the global burden of disease study 2021.
16 p.
Med.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2025.100692
Lee, Sooji; Son, Yejun; Kisa, Adnan; Hwang, Jiyoung; Kim, Min Seo;
Kisa, Sezer
; Iron Deficiency Collaborators, GBD 2021 Dietary; Shin, Jae Il; Yon, Dong Keon; Kassebaum, Nicholas. J.
(2025).
Global, regional and national burden of dietary iron deficiency from 1990 to 2021: a Global Burden of Disease study.
37 p.
Nature Medicine.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03624-8
Kisa, Adnan;
Kisa, Sezer
(2025).
Health conspiracy theories: a scoping review of drivers, impacts, and countermeasures.
International Journal for Equity in Health.
Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-025-02451-0
Oh, Jiyeon; Kim, Soeun; Kim, Min Seo; Kisa, Adnan; Abate, Yohannes Habtegiorgis; ElHafeez, Samar Abd; Kisa, Sezer ; Abdelkader, Atef; Abdi, Parsa; Asthma & Allergic Dis. Collab, GBD 2021 (2025). Global, regional, and national burden of asthma and atopic dermatitis, 1990–2021, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. 22 p. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/ S2213-2600(25)00003-7
