Linn Shai, Prof.
Education
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Dates |
Degree |
Institution |
Date on which degree was granted |
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1981 |
Dr.PH |
Harvard University, School of Public Health, Boston MA, USA |
1981 |
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1978-79 |
M.P.H. |
Harvard University, School of Public Health, Boston MA, USA |
1979 |
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1976 |
M.D. |
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. |
1976 |
Awards and grants
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Year |
Granting Organization and Topic |
Amount |
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2017- |
Vatat – Israel Committee for Academic Budget and Control: Internet – based course: Bioethics (Hebrew and English) |
790,000 NIS |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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2010-2012 |
Kinneret College: Epidemiological Research |
320,000 NIS |
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2008- |
Environmental Health Fund, Israel: Air Pollution and Risk of congenital anomalies (birth defects) in Israel |
110,000 NIS |
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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 |
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
Electronic Addresses:
slinn@univ.haifa.ac.il
linn@tx.technion.ac.il
slinn@rambam.health.gov.il
linnshai@gmail.com
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.
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Conference |
Place and Date |
Title |
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The day after the corona. Neeman Institute, Technion |
Haifa, Israel (ZOOM) |
Changes in the Israeli health system. |
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Tall Buildings Neeman Institute, Technion |
Haifa, Israel |
Health Risks: Corona in Tall buildings |
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UNESCO International Chair in Bioethics (Haifa). Annual Conference. |
Porto, Portugal 2021 |
Chair, Scientific Committee. |
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UNESCO International Chair in Bioethics (Haifa). Annual International Conference. |
Jerusalem, Israel 2018 |
Chair, Scientific Committee. |
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UNESCO International Chair in Bioethics (Haifa). Annual International Conference. |
Jerusalem, Israel 2015 |
Chair, Scientific Committee. |
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UNESCO International Chair in Bioethics (Haifa). Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law |
Naples, Italy 2014 |
Chair, Scientific Committee. |
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The fourth Islam and Bioethics International Conference, Coimbra, Portugal |
Lisbon, Portugal 2015 |
The fourth Islam and Bioethics, Coimbra, Portugal |
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UNESCO International Chair (Haifa). Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law |
Naples, Italy,2014 |
Chair, Scientific Committee. |
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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) |
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Health and Environment |
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2005 |
Public Health Education (Panel) |
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Cooperative Research on 3D Medical Imaging (IBM-Technion Initiative) |
Technion Haifa, Israel 2003 |
Chairperson: 3-D imaging and medical informatics |
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2nd International Symposium of the Galil Center for Telemedicine and Medical Informatics |
Technion Haifa, Israel 2002 |
Co-Chairperson, Medical Informatics |
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First National Conference of IUCEL – Inter University Center for e Learning (MEITAL) |
Technion Haifa, Israel 2002 |
President’s Address: E—learning in higher education. |
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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 |
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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 |
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International Conference on Helmet Promotion, WHO Helmet Initiative |
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1998 |
Helmet Use in Israel – a call for action |
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Regional Conference on Epidemiological Research, Israel Society of Epidemiology. |
Tel Aviv, Israel 1998 |
Health of the Circassians – first descriptive study of a unique population |
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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 |
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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 |
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The First Mediterranean Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
Herzliya, Israel 1996 |
Disability and years of potential life lost (YPLL) |
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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 |
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Cochran Collaboration |
Oxford University Oxford, UK, 1995 |
Comments on ways to measure disability |
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First Israeli-Arab Scientific Conference |
Paris, France, 1994 |
Chairperson: Session on Health Care Systems |
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Measuring the human cost of war injury: The forgotten disabled who never die |
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First Annual UBC Summer Institute on Health Promotion Planning and Evaluation |
Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1994 |
Measures of health promotion and injury prevention |
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International Society of Political Psychology |
Boston, MA, USA, 1993 |
The use of YPLL (years of potential life lost) to measure the impact of wars |
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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 |
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Regional European Meeting, International Epidemiological Association |
Jerusalem, Israel, 1993 |
Co-Chairperson: WHO Workshop on Epidemiology of Disabilities |
