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Professor Laura Rosen: How Israel is handling the Coronavirus crisis

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March 23, 2020
Professor Laura Rosen


Shmuel Rosner and Professor Laura Rosen discuss Israel’s method of dealing with the coronavirus and its possible implications.

Prof. Leah (Laura) Rosen was born in the U.S. and immigrated to Israel in 1986. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Rutgers University and an M.S. in Biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Public Health at Hebrew University. Before coming to Tel Aviv University, she was the National Coordinator of Healthy Israel 2020, Israel’s health targeting initiative. She is a member of the Israel National Council for Smoking Prevention, and a former member of the Israel National Council for Health Promotion and the Public Committee for Reduction of Smoking and its Damages. Prof. Rosen is the former Chair of the Department of Health Promotion.

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