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

Maya Negev is a faculty member in the School of Public Health, University of Haifa. Her PhD in Environmental Studies at Ben Gurion University focused on health impact assessment in the case study of a hazardous industry site. She was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, where she worked on health impact assessment, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she worked on adaptation to climate change in the public health sector in England. In 2011-2014 she was the head of environmental policy at the Hartog School of Government and Policy, Tel Aviv University. Maya’s research focuses on health aspects of adaptation to climate change, chemicals in consumer products, and the science-policy interface. Her research was published in leading journals including Environmental Science and Policy, Environmental Research, Public Health and Natural Hazards.