Oğuz Polat was graduated from Istanbul University school of Medicine on 1983. He attended as professor to Marmara Medical School, department of forensic medicine at 1990. He was the head of Council of Forensic Medicine of Ministry of Justice between 2000-2003 He was the lecturer of department of Forensic Medicine of Marmara Medical School of Marmara University since 2009. He worked as a researcher and lecturer in Begun Violence Prevention center of Case Western Reserve University between 2010-2012 Also he is lecturing to medical law and psychology schools of five universities about forensic medicine, criminology and child rights.

He was the coordinator of Child Rights Coalition which is established at 1997 untıl 2007 and wrote the first alternative country report . Polat was the main reporteuer of the alternative report. Also he was the coordinator of civil movements for child rights 0-18 between 2004-2010.

Now he is founder and head of IMDAT (Violence Protection and Rehabilitatıon Associatıon ) since 2014. Also he is the dırector of ASUMA Violence and Crimes Research Center of Acıbadem Unıversity.

He is expert on child rights, child abuse and street children. Also he is studying about new models for institutional care especially for abused children and street children.

He had responsibilities in the 5 projects as consultant or coordinator wıth UNICEF and E. U. since 2000 named;

• Training of forensic medicine specialists as a member of multidiscipliner diagnosis and treatment teams for child abuse (UNİCEF Project- 2001)
• Desktop review of situation of children need of special protection measures and mapping of institutıons providing serices for them in 25 provinces in Turkiye (UNICEF Project-2003 )
• Reproductive health and rights trainings for service providers who are dealing with the cases of violence ( E. U project- 2004 )
• Support Line for Children on Sexual Health and Reproductive Health: Exposure of Sexual Abuse against Children (E. U. Project- 2005 )
• Building A Local System of Governance Committed To Children’s Social Inclusion : Developing Local Plan of Actions Project (E. U project- 2007 )