Maya Negev (University  of Haifa) – Public Health and Emergency Medicine

Prof. Maya Negev is the head of the Health and Climate Resilience Lab and the Health Systems Policy and Administration Program at the School of Public Health, University of Haifa. Her research interests are in the science-policy interface of environmental health, with a particular interest in health aspects of adaptation to climate change. Her current work focuses on regional and urban resilience to climate change. These questions are examined through mixed methods and interdisciplinary research. Maya is a member of the scientists’ network MedECC (Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change), and of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology’s Policy Committee, where she is engaged in synthesizing science for informing healthy climate policy.

She received her PhD from Ben-Gurion University and her doctoral thesis focused on a multicultural approach to environmental policy, was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, and conducted research on adaptation to climate change in the public health sector at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, during a Daniel Turnberg fellowship. She is the head of the Board of Directors of the Arava Institute of Environmental Studies.