Karlygash Absattarova is a project manager at the National Scientific Research Institute of Balneology and Medical Rehabilitation (Almaty, Kazakhstan), where she has been working since June 2024. She previously held a position at the Kazakh Health Technology Assessment Agency (Astana), contributing to national policy research in public health and evidence-based rehabilitation. Karlygash completed an internship in 2015 at the Department of Healthcare Policy and Research at Virginia Commonwealth University (USA), where she focused on epidemiology, geriatrics, and health systems. Her research interests include occupational lung diseases, medical rehabilitation, and gerontology. She is the co-author of the international publication “Educational Leaders in Gerontology: Introducing Competency-Based Gerontology Education in Kazakhstan,” and continues to contribute to cross-disciplinary research in rehabilitation medicine and health service innovation.