תחילת דף אינטרנט, לחץ אנטר כדי לעבור לאזור תוכן מרכזי

Prof. Shai Linn (PhD, MD)

Emeritus

School of Public Health

Personal details

Place and Date of Birth: Afula, 26 February 1947

Office: Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

Tel: 972-4-8249950

Fax Number: 972-4-8249946

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Army service: 1965-1968; Reserve service: 1968-2000. Last rank: Lieutenant Colonel, medical battalion commander. Commended by the President of Israel for excellent service, 1974.

Education

Dates

Degree

Institution

Date on which degree was granted

1981

Dr.PH

Harvard University,

School of Public Health, Boston MA, USA

1981

1978-79

M.P.H.

Harvard University,

School of Public Health, Boston MA, USA

1979

1976

M.D.

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

1976

Books

אפידמיולוגיה אנליטית ומדדי מחלת הקורונה

משמעות הבדיקות בימי מגפת הקורונה אלגברה של בדיקת הבדיקות הרפואיות

 

Awards and grants

Year

Granting Organization and Topic

Amount

2017-

Vatat – Israel Committee for Academic Budget and Control: Internet – based course: Bioethics (Hebrew and English)

790,000

NIS

2017-

Israel Ministry of Science: The National Knowledge And Research Center for Emergency Readiness  (with Prof. Deborah Shmueli and co-researchers)

3,000,000

NIS

2014-2016

Igud Arim Haifa: Epidemiologic Monitoring of Air Pollution and Health in Haifa Bay Area. (with Prof. B. Portnov, Prof. R. Carel)

3,200,000

NIS

2010-2012

Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection: Main Causes of Morbidity and Mortality among Infants, Children, Adolescents and Adults Living in the Haifa Bay Area and Zebulon Area in Israel During the Years of 2004-2010. PI (with Prof. B. Portnov)

138,000

NIS

2010-2012

Kinneret College: Epidemiological Research

320,000

NIS

2008-

Environmental Health Fund, Israel: Air Pollution and Risk of congenital anomalies (birth defects) in Israel

110,000

NIS

2006-2007

The Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research (NIHP): Complaints in the public health-care system: Behavior patterns, knowledge, and correlates in the elderly, new immigrants and people with disabilities (Research 4106). Co-PI (PI: Dr. I. Doron, Dr. I. Gal, U. of Haifa)

91,400

NIS

2006-2008

Israeli Science Foundation (ISF): The effect of leadership and organizational climate in hospital units on staff performance and patient recovery. Co-PI (PI: Dr. D Yagil, Dr. G. Luria, U. of Haifa)

180,000 NIS

Books

אפידמיולוגיה אנליטית ומדדי מחלת הקורונה

משמעות הבדיקות בימי מגפת הקורונה אלגברה של בדיקת הבדיקות הרפואיות

Conference

Place and Date

Title

The day after the corona.

Neeman Institute, Technion

  Haifa, Israel

  (ZOOM)

Changes in the Israeli health system.

Tall Buildings

Neeman Institute, Technion

  Haifa, Israel

Health Risks: Corona in Tall buildings

UNESCO International

  Chair in Bioethics (Haifa).       Annual Conference.

  Porto,

  Portugal  2021

Chair, Scientific Committee.

UNESCO International Chair in Bioethics (Haifa). Annual International Conference.

   Jerusalem, Israel 2018

Chair, Scientific Committee.

UNESCO International Chair in Bioethics (Haifa). Annual International Conference.

   Jerusalem, Israel 2015

Chair, Scientific Committee.

UNESCO International Chair in Bioethics (Haifa). Bioethics, Medical Ethics  and Health Law

   Naples, Italy 2014

Chair, Scientific Committee.

The fourth Islam and Bioethics   International Conference, Coimbra, Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

2015

 The fourth Islam and Bioethics, Coimbra, Portugal

UNESCO International Chair (Haifa). Bioethics, Medical Ethics  and Health Law

Naples, Italy,2014

Chair, Scientific Committee.

International Forum for the Reduction of Road Accidents. The Research Institute of

Human Factors in Road Safety

Rishon Lezion, Israel 2006.

Hooliganism on Israeli Roads. A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of the Concept (Sikron F, Baron-Epel O, Linn S)

Health and Environment

Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2005

Public Health Education

(Panel)

Cooperative Research on 3D Medical Imaging (IBM-Technion Initiative)

Technion

Haifa, Israel

2003

Chairperson: 3-D imaging and medical informatics

2nd International Symposium of the Galil Center for Telemedicine and Medical Informatics

Technion

Haifa, Israel

2002

Co-Chairperson, Medical Informatics

First National Conference of IUCEL – Inter University Center for e Learning (MEITAL)

Technion

Haifa, Israel

2002

President’s Address: E—learning in higher education.

20th Annual Conference of the International Society for Biostatistics: Medical Informatics, Clinical Biostatistics and Epidemiology For Efficient Health Care

Heidelberg, Germany

1999

Backward approach for estimating physician-specific diagnostic test characteristics: a unified approach in analytical epidemiology and clinical epidemiology

4th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control

Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

1998

Years of potential productivity lost (YPPL) - a new measure to estimate the human cost of injury

International Conference on Helmet Promotion, WHO Helmet Initiative

Amsterdam, Netherlands,

1998

Helmet Use in Israel - a call for action

Regional Conference on Epidemiological Research, Israel Society of Epidemiology.

Tel Aviv, Israel

1998

Health of the Circassians – first descriptive study of a unique population

Co-Chairperson: Epidemiology Research in Northern Israel. Regional Conference on Epidemiological Research, Israeli Society of Epidemiology

Tel Aviv, Israel

1998

Co-Chairperson: Epidemiology Research in Northern Israel

XI International Conference on AIDS

Vancouver, BC, Canada 1996

AIDS-related disability and years of potential productivity lost (YPPL) - a new measure to estimate the human cost of AIDS

The First Mediterranean Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Herzliya, Israel

1996

Disability and years of potential life lost (YPLL)

Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Washington, DC, USA, 1995

A geometric extension to the Injury Severity Score (ISS): methodology for patients with 4 or more injuries. Invited lecture

Cochran Collaboration

Oxford University Oxford, UK, 1995

Comments on ways to measure disability

First Israeli-Arab Scientific Conference

Paris, France,

1994

Chairperson: Session on Health Care Systems

Measuring the human cost of war injury: The forgotten disabled who never die

First Annual UBC Summer Institute on Health Promotion Planning and Evaluation

Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1994

Measures of health promotion and injury prevention

International Society of Political Psychology

Boston, MA, USA,

1993

The use of YPLL (years of potential life lost) to measure the impact of wars

MacArthur Foundation – Social Science Research Council Annual Conference

Istanbul, Turkey,

1993

Invited Lecture: Measuring the human cost of war. The relationships between severity of war injury and disability

Regional European Meeting, International Epidemiological Association

Jerusalem, Israel,

1993

Co-Chairperson: WHO Workshop on Epidemiology of Disabilities