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

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"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

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, and

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, 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

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which is part of the

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 Weiz ...

Education

Levine earned a Bachelor of Medical Sciences degree, with honors, from the Hadassah School of Medicine at the

in 1999. He went on to earn a BA, with distinction, also at Hebrew University, where he further earned his medical degree (2003). He did his medical residency from 2005 until 2010 with

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the Israel, State of Israel. It consists of three servic ...

' Medical Corps and earned a MPH ''magna cum laude'' at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, in 2010.

Research

In 2017, Levine published the results of an international study that concluded sperm counts in men had dropped by 59.3% since 1973. Levine, who at the time was head of the Environmental Health Track at Nraun, co-led the study with Shanna Swan of New York City’s

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City. It is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which manages eight ...

References

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