Özden Erdem was born in 1985 in Çanakkale (Gallipoli). She completed her primary education in 1996, secondary education in 1999, and high school in 2003 in Gallipoli. She graduated from Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA) Nursing Undergraduate Program with the honor degree in 2007. She worked as an operating room nurse at Ankara GATA between 2007 and 2008, as an Operating Room, Emergency, Clinic and Polyclinic nurse between 2008 and 2011 at Ardahan Military Hospital, as Operating Room and Training nurse at Çanakkale Military Hospital between 2011 and 2015.

She completed her master's degree in the Department of Nursing at Atatürk University in 2012 with the thesis "The Effect of Oral Care with Royal Jelly on the Degrees of Mucositis in Adult Patients Receiving Chemotherapy". She won the first prize for the best oral presentation at the 7th Turkish Armed Forces Nursing Congress. She completed her Ph.D education at Marmara University in Health Sciences Institute Nursing program between 2014 and 2021 with the thesis ‘’The Effect of Transtheoretic Model Based Health Promotion Program on Safe Cycling Behavior on Adolescents’’. She received the third prize for her oral presentation with "Problems Experienced by a Family Victim of Violence Case Report (2016)". She has been working as a Research Assistant at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University in the Department of Public Health Nursing in 2016. She worked as a research assistant in the Department of Public Health Nursing at Marmara University between 2017 and 2021. She has been working as a research assistant at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Public Health Nursing Department since 2021.
She took Ph.D. courses on Family Health, Environmental Health, School Health, Occupational Health Nursing, Special Groups in Public Health Nursing, Advanced Research Methods, Concept-Theory, Organization in Public Health Nursing, Concept Theory Development Process, Qualitative Research Methods and Psychodrama. She has certificates in the fields of scale development, epidemiology, research methods, measurement and evaluation, bioethics, Family Health, Life Coaching, Play Therapist. She works on behavioral change, acquisting healthy behavior, safe cycling, Faith Community Nursing, Health promotion, Home Care, oral mucositis and violence.