Speaker: Prof Nadav Davidovitch
Director, School of Public Health; Vice Dean for Global Engagement and Research Collaboration, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University
Health and Equity in all Policies: Local, Regional and Global Perspectives on COVID19 Challenges in Israel
Prof Nadav Davidovitch studied philosophy and then medicine at Tel Aviv and specialised in epidemiology and public health physician. Previously he chaired the Department of Health Systems Management at Ben-Gurion and the Centre for Health Policy Research in the Negev. His research interests are health policy, public health, vaccination policy, one health/ecohealth, comparative healthcare systems, public health ethics, and global health. He serves on national and international committees, among them: Governing Board, European Public Health Association; Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) COVID-19 Task Force; and the Israel advisory committee for COVID-19. He has published over 160 papers in leading journals and many book chapters, coedited six volumes and books and published his work in leading medical and health policy journals. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Israel, he has been involved in research and the formulation of health policy and has advised agencies in Israel and abroad on the need to make structural changes in the health system, with an emphasis on social issues and addressing health gaps.
Global health threats including, epidemics and climate change, know no political borders. In his talk Prof Davidovitch will analyze the development of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel and its interaction with social, economic and political determinants of health, and the role played by different sectors within Israeli society within and outside the medical system. In addition, he will present the need to move from vaccine nationalism to vaccine internationalism and the need to rethink global health governance.