A research excellence award was recently presented to
Prof. Nadav Davidovitch by the
Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) at a ceremony in Sofia, Bulgaria. The award recognizes outstanding achievements in public health research and is given annually to an individual – on behalf of their research team – primarily affiliated with an ASPHER member school. This prestigious award emphasized his contribution to the issue of health inequality.
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"I am very proud to receive this year the ASPHER Research Excellence Award," noted Prof. Nadav Davidovitch (pictured above center). "It represents not just an individual achievement but a recognition of our School of Public Health with our amazing faculty and staff and the important contribution we all have in the research of public health with a strong focus on health inequities and the need to translate and implement public health interventions together with our partners in the ministry of health, health funds, municipalities and civic society."
From 1988 to 1995, Davidovitch studied medicine at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and concurrently also completed a degree in philosophy and a Ph.D. in the history and sociology of health.
After studying medicine, he served in the IDF as a battalion and brigade doctor. In the IDF's public health sector, Davidovitch specialized in epidemiology and public health and climbed the ranks to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the reserves.
Prof. Davidovitch heads the School of Public Health at BGU's Faculty of Health Sciences and serves as Chairman of the Public Health Forum of the Israel Medical Association. Previously, he served as chairman of the Center for Health Policy Research in the Negev, and as chairman of the Association of Public Health Physicians in Israel. He also Chair the Health Policy Program at the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel.
He has authored or co-authored over 160 papers and book chapters, coedited six volumes and books, and published his work in leading medical and health policy journals, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Journal of Pediatrics, Vaccine, Social Science and Medicine, and Law & Contemporary Problems.
