Research Students

Our Research Students


Dr. Keren Agay-Shay:

  • Inass Tarabeia, Ph.D candidate, Cancer incidence, environmental exposures and Social determinates of health (SDH).
  • Hila Ben-Amram, Ph.D candidate, Environmental and SDH risk factors for acquisition of antibiotic-resistant infection and the health burden of this.
  • Reem Mohsen, MSc Candidate, Biophilia & “Body-philia”: The effects of short visits to outdoor environments on positive body image, a field experiment.
  • Ofir Avizemel, MD, Residential Greenness and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Incidence.

Dr. Limor Meoded-Danon:

  • Alona Lusky – Thesis, Selective Mutism – The Dynamics between the Somatical and the Social ‘Silencing’.
  • Faida Barazi – Thesis, Parental Coping for Children with Cerebral Palsy in Israel
  • Ola Doukhy – Ph.D candidate, Knowledge, diagnosis and treatment of different sexual development (with Prof. Michael Edelstein)

Prof. David Karsik:

  • Ilham Morani – Ph.D Candidate, Genetic predisposition to COVID19.(with Prof. Michael Edelstein).

Prof. Michael Edelstein:

  • Avi Jacobson – Ph.D candidate, Evidence-based design, implementation and evaluation of a tailored intervention to improve routine vaccinations among the Ultra-Orthodox community in the city of Safed. (with Dr. Sivan Spitzer)
  • Jamalaat Jas – Ph.D candidate, Developing Municipal Resilience for municipalities at the geographic-social periphery: What can we learn from COVID-19. (with Dr. Sivan Spitzer)
  • Paul Kuodi – Ph.D candidate, Impact of COVID19 vaccination on long COVID.
  • Ilham Morani – Ph.D candidate, Genetic predisposition to COVID19. (with Prof. David Karasik)
  • Ola Doukhy –  Ph.D candidate, Knowledge, diagnosis and treatment of different sexual development. (with Dr. Limor Meoded-Danon)
  • Lital Rubin –  Msc student,  Remote pain management – Assessing the effectiveness of a telemedicine back pain service service in the Northern Israel periphery.

Dr. Sivan Spitzer:

  • Tali Hefling Strauber –  MA, Quality Assurance in Uncertain Times: The work of primary care teams during COVID-19.
  • Ligat Daudi –  Ph.D candidate. A novel hospital-based intervention to reduce readmission of preventable injuries in children.
  • Foad Michael – Ph.D candidate, Evaluating the implementation of an online prescription platform service in one of Israel’s leading HMOs: Barriers, Facilitators and Usability by minority populations in Israel’s Northern Periphery.
  • Chava Kurtz – Ph.D candidate, Implementing patient centered shared care in hemodialysis wards.
  • Avi Yacobson, Ph.D candidate, Evidence-based design, implementation and evaluation of a tailored intervention to improve routine vaccinations among the Ultra-Orthodox community in the city of Safed (with Prof. Michael Edelstein)
  • Jamalt Jass, Ph.D candidate, Developing Municipal Resilience for municipalities at the geographic-social periphery: What can we learn from COVID-19 (with Prof. Michael Edelstein)
  • Midhat Naamne, Ph.D candidate, Evaluation of an intervention to reduce the conversion rate from prediabetes to diabetes.
  • Tal Ben-Yitzhak Sade, Ph.D candidate, A Behavioral approach to reduce the conversion rate from pre-diabetes to diabetes.
  • Dr. Nosaiba Rayan-Gharra, post-doc, Cultural concordant healthcare through the lens of implementation science.
  • Dr. Yosefa Birati, post-doc, Developing a culturally tailored health app to improve GDM management.
  • Dr. Tali Lang, post-doc, Developing an evaluating the implementation of a social prescription platform to mitigate health inequities