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Prof. Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, PhD
Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, PhD is a full professor (tenured), Vice Dean of Teaching Affairs, head of Health Promotion Program, School of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, and the Founding Director of the Health and Risk Communication Lab (formerly center) at University of Haifa. During 2020 Anat was a visiting scholar at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Biography
Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, PhD is associate professor (tenured), Vice Dean of Teaching Affairs, head of Health Promotion Program, School of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, and the Founding Director of the Health and Risk Communication Lab (formerly center) at University of Haifa. During 2020 Anat was a visiting scholar at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago.Anat has authored some 106 articles in refereed journals, books, chapters in scientific books, and articles in conference proceedings.
She is Deputy Editor of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Associate Editor of BMC Public Health, Frontiers in Public Health, and Academic Editor of PLOS ONE.
Her most recent book Risk Communication and Infectious Diseases in an Age of Digital Media was published by Routledge Studies in Public Health.
Anat is also a researcher at The Center for Evaluation of Health Promotion Interventions and at The Emili Sagol Creative Arts Therapies Research Center, University of Haifa.
Anat has won or collaborated in many research grants, among them TellMe and Asset, two European Commission funded research grants, and she has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.
Anat has a BA (Summa Cum Laude, 1997) and PhD (With Distinction, 2002) both from the Faculty of the Arts, Tel-Aviv University. She has completed her Post-Doc research (2006) being awarded the Vidal Angel Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Against Hate and Bigotry at the Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Her areas of research include health and risk communication, positive deviance, social marketing, persuasive communication, health-promotion programs, entertainment-education, mixed methods research, and qualitative research. Anat investigate a variety of health-related issues, including emerging infectious disease (EID) communication, vaccination compliance, drugs and alcohol abuse, drinking-and-driving, sex education, nutrition, hospital-acquired infections prevention, preventing unintentional childhood injuries among the Bedouins in southern Israel, and health and risk communication surrounding COVID-19.
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BA (Summa Cum Laude), Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 1997
PhD (With Distinction), Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 2002
Post-Doc, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2006
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Her areas of research include health and risk communication, positive deviance, social marketing, persuasive communication, health-promotion programs, entertainment-education, mixed methods research, and qualitative research. Anat investigate a variety of health-related issues, including emerging infectious disease (EID) communication, vaccination compliance, drugs and alcohol abuse, drinking-and-driving, sex education, nutrition, and hospital-acquired infections prevention.
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