Nadav Davidovitch (; born July 5, 1969) is an Israeli

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physician,

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, and professor. He serves as the director of the School of Public Health at

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) (, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public university, public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Named after Israeli List of national founders, national founder David Ben-Gurion, the unive ...

(BGU) and is the chair of

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's Association of Public Health Physicians. In 2021, he succeeded Hagai Levine as interim director. Davidovitch has served as chair of the Center for Health Policy Research in the

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. He is recognized as an expert in

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and is a member of the advisory committee for Israel's "corona czar." He serves on several other committees, including the

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’s Governing Board. At BGU’s School of Public Health, Davidovitch is a professor and a past chair of the Department of Health Systems Management. He is an advisory board member for the Americans’ Conceptions of Health Equity Study at the

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. In the 2005–2006 school year, he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the

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Department of Sociomedical Sciences and the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health in 2008 and 2016.

Education

Davidovitch earned a B.A. (

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) in 1995 from

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

(TAU). The same year, he received an M.D. degree with a thesis entitled "Thyroid Function in Preterm: The Influence of Iodine Containing Disinfectants." He also obtained a Ph.D. in the

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from TAU, with a thesis entitled "Framing Scientific Medicine: The Relationship between

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and Conventional Medicine in the US, 1870–1930." His Ph.D. advisors included Allan M. Brandt of Harvard University,

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, and Moshe Zuckerman. In 2005, he earned an M.P.H. from Ben-Gurion University in the Negev in epidemiology, focusing on health system management, with a thesis entitled "Health Status and Patterns of Use of Health Services among Recent Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Ethiopia." His M.P.H. advisors were Lechaim Naggan and Shifra Shvarts.

Selected publications

*''Israelis, Demand Palestinians Get Vaccinated, Too. Or the Pandemic Won’t End'' *Eli Jaffe, Keren Dopelt, Nadav Davidovitch, Yuval Bitan, "Vaccination of the Elderly in Assisted Living by the Israeli Emergency Medical Services", American Journal of Public Health 111, no. 7 (July 1, 2021): pp. 1223-1226. *''Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law'' *''Into the "New Normal": The Ethical and Analytical Challenge Facing Public Health Post-COVID-19'' *''Governance, Quarantine and Isolation in light of Public Health Ethics during the COVID-19 Pandemic''

References

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