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Braun School Of Public Health And Community Medicine
The Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine is a public health school in Israel affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Hadassah Medical Center. History Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine was founded in 1961. It was the country's first public health school. The school offers a one year International Master of Health program in English that is APHEA accredited. The program has over 850 graduates from 100 countries. Notable faculty * Irit Cohen-Manheim PhD * Hagai Levine *Ora Paltiel Ora Paltiel is an epidemiologist and a professor in the Braun School of Public Health, where she was also director of the Master’s in Public Health program from 2013 until 2016, and in the Department of Hematology. She has also served as Dean at ... References External linksOfficial Wbaite Schools of public health Hebrew University of Jerusalem Medical schools in Israel {{Israel-university-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea, and shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel also is bordered by the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively. Tel Aviv is the economic and technological center of the country, while its seat of government is in its proclaimed capital of Jerusalem, although Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem is unrecognized internationally. The land held by present-day Israel witnessed some of the earliest human occupations outside Africa and was among the earliest known sites of agriculture. It was inhabited by the Canaanites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew University Of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, the public university officially opened in April 1925. It is the second-oldest Israeli university, having been founded 30 years before the establishment of the State of Israel but six years after the older Technion university. The HUJI has three campuses in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot. The world's largest library for Jewish studies—the National Library of Israel—is located on its Edmond J. Safra campus in the Givat Ram neighbourhood of Jerusalem. The university has five affiliated teaching hospitals (including the Hadassah Medical Center), seven faculties, more than 100 research centers, and 315 academic departments. , one-third of all the doctoral candidates in Israel were studying at the HUJI. Among its first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadassah Medical Center
Hadassah Medical Center ( he, הָמֶרְכָּז הָרְפוּאִי הֲדַסָּה) is an Israeli medical organization established in 1934 that operates two university hospitals in Jerusalem – one in Ein Karem and one in Mount Scopus –, as well as schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacology affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Its declared mission is to extend a "hand to all, without regard for race, religion or ethnic origin." The hospital was founded by the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America, which continues to underwrite a large part of its budget today. The Medical Center ranks as the sixth-largest hospital complex in Israel. Across its two campuses, Hadassah Medical Center has over 1,300 beds, 31 operating theaters and nine special intensive care units, and runs five schools of medical professions. History Late Ottoman period (1912–1915) The Hadassah organization was established in 1912 in New York City to provide heal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagai Levine
Hagai Levine is an Israeli public health physician and epidemiologist. Until 2021, Levine was the chairman of Israel's association of Public Health Physicians. He left to help Moshe Ya'alon and Telem "bring 'security and hope' to Israel" again". The Association announced Nadav Davidovitch would serve as interim chairman. Levine explained his reasons for leaving in a letter to Chezy Levy, the Director-General of the Ministry of Health, and Nachman Ash, who was the country's Coronavirus Commissioner, was due to his concerns over their lack of leadership in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel. Levine is on the faculty of the Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine which is part of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Education Levine earned a Bachelor of Medical Sciences degree, with honors, from the Hadassah School of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1999. He went on to earn a BA, with distinction, also at Hebrew University, where he furth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ora Paltiel
Ora Paltiel is an epidemiologist and a professor in the Braun School of Public Health, where she was also director of the Master’s in Public Health program from 2013 until 2016, and in the Department of Hematology. She has also served as Dean at the Braun School. Biography Of Romanian and Ukrainian heritage, Paltiel was born in Canada and emigrated to Israel as a child. Both of her parents were seeking post-graduate degrees. Her family returned and settled in Ottawa before Paltiel went to Toronto for a bachelor’s degree in anthropology. That is when she met her future husband, Mark Clarfield. The family moved to Israel in 1992. Paltiel received her medical degree from the McGill University School of Medicine and a M.Sc.in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, also from McGill, in 1988. She trained in hematology, internal medicine and oncology. Research Between 2010 and 2014, she studied 1631 Israelis and Palestinians in an effort to learn risk factors for Non-Hodgkin lymphoma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schools Of Public Health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for public health. The ''public'' can be as small as a handful of people or as large as a village or an entire city; in the case of a pandemic it may encompass several continents. The concept of ''health'' takes into account physical, psychological, and social well-being.What is the WHO definition of health? from the Preamble to the Constitution of WHO as adopted by the International Health Conference, New York, 19 June - 22 July 1946; signed on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
